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THE 
HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

BY 

ELIZABETH  DELVINE  KING 

Author  of  "Hlte  Lotus  PatK,"  Etc. 


SIXTEEN  LESSONS 


Published  by 

J.  F.  ROWNT  PRESS 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
1918 


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Copyright  1918 
by 

ELIZABETH  DELVINE  KING 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


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Table  of  Contents 
PART  ONE 

TABLE  OP  CONTENTS 5 

PREFACE  7 

GENERAL  INTRODUCTION 9 

1  'MAN,  KNOW  THYSELF " 12 

PRAYER 15 

FAITH 19 

APPLICATION 23 

MAN  AS  HE  Is  AND  AS  HE  SEEMS  TO  BE 28 

REALITY 32 

PART  TWO 

"  GOD  RESTS  IN  ACTION  " 35 

WISDOM 37 

ONE  PRESENCE 40 

BOUNTY 43 

LOVE 45 

THE  CHRIST  CONSCIOUSNESS 48 

REALIZATION 50 

COMPLETENESS 51 

MASTERSHIP  .                                                  54 


PEEFACE 

[n  presenting  these  sixteen  lessons  in  The  Higher  Meta- 
physics, our  hope  is  to  assist  those  who  so  desire,  to  pass  on- 
ward from  the  mental  or  intellectual  perception  (and  prac- 
tice) of  the  working  hypothesis  of  the  Omnipresent  Reality, 
into  the  spiritual  or  esoteric ; — that  sweet  essence,  the  Father 's 
love,  care  and  bounty,  which  is  omnipotent. 

That  men  may,  through  enlightenment  and  devotion,  rend 
the  veil,  and  pierce  the  illusive  shadows  with  the  sword  of 
truth.  Thus  anchored  and  enlightened,  man  is  able  to  live  his 
life ;  and  prove  his  God-given  dominion  over  the  tempter  (his 
own  carnal  nature).  When  this  is  accomplished,  man  has 
passed  out  from  the  illusive  forest, — carnality. 

Then  man's  next  effort  is  to  bring  his  body  (the  temple) 
into  redemption,  according  to  the  pattern,  the  example  of 
Jesus.  ' '  Follow  thou  me, ' '  said  Jesus. 

Jesus  said,  "Ye  shall  know  the  Truth,  and  the  Truth  shall 
make  you  free."  Thus  we  perceive  knowledge  is  necessary 
to  man,  as  he  moves  along  the  Path  toward  enlightenment. 

In  Love's  vibration  we  send  forth  this  book,  to  the  hearts 
of  Love,  who  respond  to  its  instructions. 


PART  ONE 

LESSON  1 

THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
GENERAL  INTRODUCTION 

HE  Truth  Absolute,  is  the  foundation  upon  which  we 
stand.  "We  are  presenting  a  Principle,  the  understand- 
ing and  application  of  which  will  remove  the  web  of 
the  carnal  illusions  from  man's  mind.  "When  this  is  accom- 
plished, man 's  soul-memory  is  restored ;  his  sight  merged  into 
Vision ;  and  he  then  sees  himself  the  perfect  being,  just  as  God 
created  him.  He  sees  also,  that  he  is  in  the  midst  of  Perfec- 
tion; that  God,  and  His  Manifestations,  is  all  there  is — in 
Reality.  So  we  give  these  instructions  clear,  yet  concise. 

We  give  The  Higher  Metaphysical  instructions  to  assist 
man  along  the  Path  unto  the  heights  where  he  visions  the 
Absoluteness  as  it  is  in  all  its  perfection,  beauty  and  unchange- 
ableness;  and  to  enable  the  student-devotee  to  understand, 
then  to  perceive,  there  is  a  Bock,  upon  which  to  stand,  as  he 
studies  this  Message  and  the  scientific  application  of  its  rules, 
which  is  so  firm  and  steadfast  that  neither  the  winds  of  Ages, 
Cycles,  Periods  nor  Kalpas  can  shake  it.  That  Rock  is  the 
Absolute.  The  Absolute  is  God,  the  Infinite,  the  limitless,  the 
ALL.  Then  man  can  readily  perceive  that  the  Infinite  fills 
all  space.  If  it  fills  all  space,  none  can  escape  from  the  Great 
Presence ;  neither  can  he  step  beyond  its  bounds. 

God  is  Infinite  in  His  Manifestations.  We  are  easily  con- 
vinced of  this  when  we  look  about  us ;  because  at  our  feet  we 
see  the  blades  of  grass,  the  atoms  of  earth,  the  grains  of  sand ; 
we  raise  our  eyes  and  behold  the  vast  and  ever  rolling  seas, 
we  see  the  majestic  mountain  ranges,  their  snow-capped 
peaks  towering  high,  in  their  seeming  effort  to  reach  and  kiss 
the  blue  vault  above  them ;  and,  in  their  silent  grandeur,  they 
serenely  remain,  reminding  man  of  the  strength  and  unchange- 
ableness  of  the  Infinite. 

As  man  continues  to  look  about  him,  he  sees  men;  and  in 
every  clime  men  live  in  innumerable  numbers.  In  Genesis  we 
rea'd,  "God  created  man  in  His  image  and  likeness."  We  also 

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'  >  ^:T$E  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

r^a-.l  in  Holy  Writ,  that  man  is  the  highest  manifestation  of 
God,  and,  "God's  crowning  glory."  When  man  has  elimi- 
nated the  carnal  conception  of  himself  from  his  mind,  it  is 
then  he  will  perceive  and  understand  himself  as  God  expressed 
him  into  form  from  out  the  womb  of  the  Infinite ;  and,  then, 
there  being  no  more  mist  in  his  mind,  he  perceives  he  is  living 
in  the  very  heart  of  God,  and  that,  throughout  the  never- 
ending  aeons  of  Eternity,  he  dwells  in  the  very  center  of  God ; 
and  that  he,  being  an  expression  of  God,  the  Father  abides 
within  him.  "The  Father  within  me,  He  doeth  the  works, " 
said  the  Master  Jesus. 

The  keynotes  of  these  lessons  ring  strong  and  clear  in  the 
message  of  Jesus  Christ  of  Nazareth.  He  knew  the  Truth; 
therefore  spake  knowingly.  He  ever  gave  to  God  the  glory, 
and  manifested  it  among  the  children  of  men  by  living  the 
Life  and  expressing  God-Love  and  tender  kindness  to  the 
family  of  men. 

The  foundation  upon  which  to  stand  is  God;  and  the  first 
thing  for  the  awakened  man  to  do  is  to  study  and  pray  until 
he  gains  an  understanding  of  God,  the  Infinite.  Then  the 
next  step  is  to  understand  man ;  then  sonship ;  then  Oneness. 
Man  has  scaled  the  heights  ere  he  comes  into  the  Realization 
of  Oneness.  From  that  lofty  pinnacle  he  visions  the  Absolute- 
ness as  it  is. 

We  read  in  the  scriptures,  that  "God  is  All,  and  there  is 
none  beside  Him."  Also,  that  God  is  Omnipresent,  Omnipo- 
tent and  Omniscient,  which  means  All-Power,  All-Presence 
and  All-Knowing.  Knowing  is  Science;  and  Knowing  is 
Action.  We  also  read  that,  "God  rests  in  Action."  Then 
we  see  God  as  Scientific  Action,  filling  all  space — here,  there 
and  everywhere;  as  an  ancient  Sage  once  said,  "With  center 
here,  and  circumference  nowhere."  We  also  read  in  the 
scriptures,  "That  man  lives  and  moves  and  has  his  being  in 
God."  Also  that,  "God  created  man  in  His  image  and  like- 
ness." 

Let  us  move  slowly  here,  because  we  are  touching  the  border- 
line of  Light,  "that  Light  which  lighteth  the  illimitable  Pres- 
ence, which  is  God ;  and  let  us  tread  lightly,  because  this  place 
where  unto  we  are  approaching  is  ' '  Holy  Ground. ' ' 

When  Moses  saw  this  same  Presence,  when  It  manifested  as 
fire  in  the  bush,  that  Moses  might  heed  the  Presence  of  the 
Ever-Present  God ;  and,  when  Moses  turned  aside  to  look  into 
the  strangeness  of  the  fire  burning  so  strong,  and  not  consum- 
ing the  bush;  then  the  Voice  of  God  spake  to  him  and  said, 
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GENERAL  INTRODUCTION 

"Take  off  thy  shoes  from  thy  feet,  for  the  place  whereon  thou 
standest  is  holy  ground.'* 

So  it  is  with  all  men,  when  they  awaken  sufficiently  to  turn 
aside  into  the  way  that  leads  into  the  vastness,  the  nearness, 
the  greatness,  beauty  and  glory  of  the  Infinite — the  Father — 
Mother — God,  and  perceive  the  fire  of  God  ever  burning,  but 
never  consuming  the  Real; — then  it  is  that  the  Voice  of  the 
Infinite  will  say  to  them:  ''Remove  thy  shoes  from  off  thy 
feet,  because  the  place  whereon  thou  standest  is  holy  ground. ' ' 
This  is  the  awakening  period  in  man,  and  feet  are  symbolical 
of  understanding.  Then  the  next  requisite  is,  that  man  remove 
the  outer,  or  old  understanding,  and,  with  clear  insight,  linger 
upon  the  Holy  place,  and  listen  to  the  still  voice  of  God,  that 
he  may  glean  the  light  which  man  requires  concerning  God, 
the  Infinite,  in  His  unmanifest  and  manifest  state. 

We  read  in  a  sacred  Bible  of  ancient  times,  "God  was  the 
One;  He  desired  to  become  the  many;  and  the  Spiritual 
creation  sprang  forth. " 

Jesus  Christ,  the  Great  Initiate,  said,  "I  of  myself  can  do 
nothing;  the  Father  within  me  He  doeth  the  works."  Then 
let  the  student-devotee  study,  meditate  and  pray  until  he 
knows  God,  in  His  vastness  and  nearness,  in  His  strength  and 
tenderness;  and,  then,  man's  place  in  this  Infinite  Presence 
and  his  at-one-ment  with  It. 

It  is  realization  which  brings  man  into  the  full  illumination 
of  the  Absolute,  and  it  is  illumination  which  brings  man  into 
the  fullness  of  Realization. 

When  man,  using  The  Higher  Metaphysics  intellectually, 
it  remains  an  intellectual  perception  only,  until  the  Realiza- 
tion takes  place;  this  brings  him  to  the  spiritual  perception 
of  the  Spiritual  man, — Atman, — the  Divine  Self. 

It  is  then  that  man  has  touched  the  mystic  spring  of  the 
Infinite ;  and,  continuing  upon  the  Path,  he  walks  in  the  laby- 
rinth of  the  beauty,  love  and  rhythm  of  the  Father-Mother- 
God;  and  devotion,  reverence  and  appreciation  to  the  great 
Over-Soul  spring  forth  from  the  soul;  and  the  Key  of  Love 
sweeps  over  the  strings  of  the  Infinite  Harp ;  and  the  mist  of 
confusion  being  removed  from  the  mind,  man  sits  serenely  in 
the  abiding  consciousness  of  his  nearness — yea,  at-one-ment 
with  God. 


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LESSON  2 
THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

"MAN,  KNOW  THY-SELF" 

|AVING  spoken  in  the  previous  chapter  concerning  the 
Absoluteness  of  God,  we  will  add  here,  that  man  should 
stand  firm  upon  that  Eternal  Rock,  The  Absolute,  until 
he  attains  the  Christ- Consciousness ;  then  the  next  step  is  God- 
Consciousness,  which  is  the  illumination  into  realization  of 
the  Oneness  of  all  that  IS. 

It  is  necessary  for  man  to  accept  this  Rock,  and  the  Abso- 
luteness thereof,  by  faith ;  but,  through  earnest  study,  sincere 
prayer  and  deep  meditation,  man  will  gain  understanding  so 
strong  and  clear,  that  faith  and  understanding  join  hands, 
and  knowing  becomes  the  quality  which  is  manifest  in  his 
mind.  Knowing  is  a  quality  of  the  mind.  The  Higher  Meta- 
physics deals  with  man's  own  mind;  that  he  may  by  denials 
of  the  false  beliefs  which  form  the  fabric  of  the  carnal  illusion ; 
cause  the  mind  to  become  emptied  of  them ;  then,  through  and 
by  affirming  the  Truth  of  man's  Being,  until  the  mirror,  his 
mentality,  is  thoroughly  polished ;  then  man  can  perceive  the 
reality  and  perfection  of  the  Real  Self,  as  God  created  him, 
and  caused  him  to  step  forth  an  individualized  manifestation 
of  the  Living  God. 

In  this  practical  and  scientific  study,  man  is  to  become 
acquainted  with  himself;  "Man  know  thyself."  In  Genesis, 
First  Chapter,  we  read,  "And  God  said,  let  us  make  man  in 
our  image,  after  our  likeness;  and  let  them  have  dominion 
over  the  fish  of  the  sea,  and  over  the  fowl  of  the  air,  and  over 
the  cattle,  and  over  all  the  earth,  and  over  every  creeping  thing 
that  creepeth  upon  the  earth. "  Gen.  1:26. 

"So  God  created  man  in  His  own  image,  in  the  image  of 
God  created  He  him;  male  and  female  created  He  them." 
Gen.  1:27. 

Thus  we  see  by  the  allegory  in  Genesis,  that  man  is  a  perfect 
being,  or  manifestation  of  God ;  but  St.  Paul  said,  ' '  Man  has 
sought  out  many  inventions";  therefore,  man  finds  himself, 
when  he  awakens,  clothed  upon  with  an  outer  temple,  which 
does  not  express  the  perfection  of  the  God-created  man,  "the 
body  being  the  Temple  of  the  Living  God." 
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"MAN,  KNOW  THYSELF" 

Thus  we  perceive  the  allegory  in  Genesis  to  be  the  Voice  of 
the  Infinite  speaking  to  man  in  as  clear  a  way  concerning 
man's  being,  as  is  possible  for  man  to  conceive  of  the  Infinite 
in  Action  and  Manifestation. 

These  lessons  are  not  written  in  an  elaborate  way,  that  the 
intellect  may  be  fed,  or,  perhaps,  pleased,  but  in  a  concise 
form;  as  it  is  the  purpose  that  the  student-devotee,  after 
studying  the  Great  Fabric  of  Truth  concerning  God,  man  and 
the  Universe  may  feel  his  soul  leap  forth  with  a  bound  into 
conscious  life;  and  as  the  Ego  bursts  its  bounds,  merge  into 
the  realization  of  his  Real  Self  and  his  at-one-ment  with  God, 
which  is  Cosmic  Consciousness  in  the  individual. 

It  is  realization  which  we  desire  the  reader  and  student- 
devotee  to  reach  in  the  study  of  these  lessons:  therefore,  be 
still  in  the  silent  chamber  of  your  own  soul, — in  your  heart, 
and  meditate  upon  God,  the  Infinite.  Meditate  upon  the  vast- 
ness  and  the  Allness  of  that  Presence  in  which  you  dwell ;  its 
nearness  and  absoluteness;  then  on  thyself,  an  individualized 
expression,  or  manifestation  of  this  Presence  Who  Knows, 
Acts,  and  IS. 

Here  man  finds  it  necessary  to  control  his  mind.  This 
requires  patience  and  perseverance,  as  the  carnal  mind  in  man 
is  like  the  surging  sea.  An  ancient  sage  has  likened  it  unto  a 
"wild  horse";  and,  truly,  it  does  seem  as  difficult  to  bring 
into  subjection  as  the  lariating  and  bringing  into  subjection 
of  the  horse  which  has  roamed  unharnessed  over  the  broad 
plains. 

To  accomplish  concentration,  first,  voice  a  prayer  to  the 
Infinite ;  then,  quiet  the  mind  and  meditate  upon  Aum — God. 
As  long  as  the  mind  is  stayed  upon  God,  it  is  not  creating 
thoughts. 

When  the  mentality  is  thoroughly  purified  of  the  carnal 
illusions,  the  God-Mind  only  is  in  operation  in  man.  This  is 
knowing  into  the  realization  of  man  as  he  is  and  things  as 
they  are.  When  thus  illumined,  man  no  longer  permits 
thoughts  to  go  from  his  mind  to  another's  mind;  neither  any- 
where. He  serenely  abides  at  home,  and  God-Mind  operates 
in  and  through  his  mentality;  God's  Holy  Breath  breathes 
him ;  he,  having  found  his  Real  Self  and  heard  the  still  voice 
of  God  speaking  to  his  soul,  becomes  a  conscious  being  in  the 
Cosmic ;  then  he  soon  will  sincerely  desire  to  learn  his  place 
in  the  Father's  great  plan. 

Man  can  here  see  the  importance  of  prayer  and  silent  medi- 
tation. Man,  standing  erect,  meditating  upon  the  Absolute- 

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ness  of  that  which  IS ;  and  desiring  to  pray  to  this  ever-pres- 
ent Presence  which,  man  has  read  in  Holy  Writ,  created  him 
in  His  image  and  likeness  begins  to  turn  the  lens  upon  himself ; 
and  this  is  well,  for  man 's  work  is  with  himself  entirely. 

There  is  nothing  to  be  changed  or  effected  by  this  study, 
and  the  application  of  the  rules  scientifically  and  metaphys- 
ically, but  man,  himself ;  and  this  is  accomplished  by  cleansing 
his  mind  and  staying  it  upon  God. 


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LESSON  3 

THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
PRAYER 

AN,  having  learned  that  he,  in  the  reality  of  his  being 
is  a  divine  man,  an  individual  manifestation  of  God, 
who  became  manifest  at  the  dawn  of  creation;  a 
Divine  Man  in  expression,  then  and  now,  and  will  ever  remain 
thus,  desires  to  communicate  with  God. 

But  man,  having  passed  out  from  the  Garden  of  Eden  into 
the  mist,  has  lost  his  way ;  and,  in  his  outer  consciousness,  has 
strayed  far  away  from  God. 

But,  when  man  has  awakened  and  learned  the  Omnipres- 
ence, Omnipotence  and  Omniscience  of  God,  and  that  man, 
in  the  reality  of  his  being,  is  a  Divine  Man,  and  living  in  the 
Infinite,  feeling  a  separation  between  himself  and  God,  he 
desires  to  commune  with  the  Father.  Jesus  taught,  "The 
Kingdom  of  Heaven  is  within, ' '  and  that  the  '  *  Father  within 
man,  he  doeth  the  works, ' '  but  man,  awakening  in  the  concept 
of  the  Prodigal  Son,  is,  in  consciousness,  far  away  from  God 
and,  feeling  his  inability  to  find  his  way,  desires  to  talk  with 
the  Father-Mother-God. 

We  read  that  King  David,  when  thirsting  for  a  drink  of 
living  water,  exclaimed,  "As  the  hart  panteth  after  the  water 
brooks,  so  panteth  my  Soul  after  thee,  0  God/'  Psalm  42:1. 

1  i  My  Soul  thirsteth  for  God,  for  the  Living  God ;  when  shall 
I  come  and  appear  before  God?"  Psalm  42:2. 

King  David  exclaimed,  evidently,  after  his  Soul  was  some- 
what refreshed,  "Commit  thy  way  unto  the  Lord;  trust  also 
in  Him ;  and  He  shall  bring  it  to  pass."  Psalm  37:5. 

When  man  is  awakened  sufficiently  to  hear  the  silent  voice 
of  his  soul,  which  is  Conscious  Life,  sufficiently  strong,  that  its 
urge  may  penetrate  the  outer  department  of  his  mind,  it  will 
express  its  thirst  for  the  water  of  Life;  and  prayer  is  the 
means  of  communication  between  man  and  God. 

Man's  method  of  prayer  changes  as  man's  enlightenment 
increases ;  but  God  ever  knoweth  the  desire  of  man 's  heart. 

Let  us  review  the  two  prayers  which  we  have  in  the  New 
Testament  record  which  portrays  the  different  states  of  men 

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who  pray.  We  have  the  Publican,  he  whom  the  Divine  Con- 
viction had  touched  to  such  a  depth,  he  began  to  examine  him- 
self ;  and,  from  the  sincerity  of  his  heart,  he  cried,  "God,  be 
merciful  to  me,  a  sinner ! ' ' 

We  have  the  Pharisee,  whom  the  Divine  Conviction  had  not 
touched  with  a  depth  sufficiently  deep  to  cause  him  to  wear  a 
robe  of  humility.  He  stood  and  prayed,  "I  thank  thee, 
Father,  that  I  am  not  as  other  men."  St.  Luke  18:11-13. 

Bigotry  and  conceit  can  never  walk  the  streets  of  the  Holy 
City.  These  need  to  be  burned  by  the  purifying  fire,  which  is 
God.  We  read  in  Holy  Writ,  '  *  God  is  a  consuming  fire. ' '  The 
Ocean  consumes  all  impurities  cast  therein. 

The  metaphysical  or  scientific  prayer  is  practical ;  but  should 
not  be  devoid  of  devotion. 

Jesus  said,  "Unless  man  becomes  as  a  little  child,  he  cannot 
enter  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven. ' '  A  little  child  has  no  enmity, 
malice  nor  revenge.  Man,  to  approach  the  Sacred  Presence  of 
the  Living  God,  in  the  christianly  scientific  prayer  has  a 
clean  mind,  and  his  heart  is  filled  with  love.  Then  in  the  quiet 
sanctuary  of  his  own  Soul,  in  silent  meditation,  he,  recogniz- 
ing God  as  He  is,  and  man  as  he  is,  in  that  sacred  chamber, 
"Where  none  but  God  can  hear" ;  communes  with  his  Father- 
Mother-God. 

God  hath  promised  to  answer  prayer;  and,  as  long  as  the 
bow  spans  the  sky,  God's  promises  will  stand. 

In  The  Higher  Metaphysics,  man  uses  denials,  understand- 
ingly,  to  eliminate  hate,  malice,  revenge,  selfishness,  self-right- 
eousness, anger  and  confusion  from  his  mind ;  then  he  calls  to 
his  remembrance  the  Absoluteness  of  God,  and  Man,  by  affirm- 
ing the  Truth,  until  a  flash  of  light  fills  his  consciousness  and 
the  place,  which  was  occupied  by  these  carnal  concepts,  is 
filled  with  the  Reality.  Man,  then,  can  sincerely  and  rever- 
ently commune  with  the  Omnipresent  God. 

When  man  arrives  at  the  Illumined  State,  he  then,  in  sweet 
assurance  and  abiding  confidence,  enters  the  Great  Silence 
and  knows  that  the  Father  hath  answered,  "even  before  he 
calls. " 

Jesus  Christ  is  our  example  here.  We  find  that  Jesus  talked 
to  the  Father  as  familiarly,  trustingly  and  confidingly  as  He 
could  have  done  to  an  earthly  father.  His  prayers  were 
answered;  He  would  say,  "Father,  I  thank  thee,  that  Thou 
hearest  me ;  and  I  know  that  Thou  hearest  me  always. ' '  Jesus 
Christ 's  prayer,  was,  and  is,  the  highest  form  of  prayer,  which 
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the  men  of  earth  have ;  but  to  voice  a  prayer  as  He  did,  man 
must  have  mastered  the  carnal  man's  fears,  doubts,  lusts  and 
passions,  and  stand,  as  He,  a  Conscious  Son  of  God. 

The  Scientific,  or  Metaphysical  Prayer  is  applied  to  man's 
mind,  that  it  may  become  clear,  that  he  may  arise  above 
undesirable  conditions  or  obstacles  which  he  may  encounter 
upon  his  path. 

When  man  realizes  the  Absolute  Truth  of  God,  man  and  the 
Universe,  he  understandingly  rests  in  abiding  peace,  and  Love 
becomes  a  reality  to  him;  yea,  that  Love-Essence,  Divine, 
which  is  the  Ever-Present  God. 

Man,  having  learned  that  God 's  manifestations  are  perfect ; 
that  the  Universe  and  systems  of  Universes  are  perfect ;  then 
proceeds,  in  his  silent  meditation,  something  like  this;  God, 
and  God's  manifestations,  being  all  there  is  in  reality;  and 
God,  filling  all  space;  then  perfection  is  in  expression  at  all 
times  and  in  all  places:  this  is  the  premise  from  which  to 
proceed,  which  is  Truth  Absolute.  It  is  necessary  that  man 
realizes  this  Reality;  and  this  will  be  in  proportion  to  his 
sincerity  and  persistent  application  to  the  task. 

Then,  to  apply  the  Metaphysical  Prayer,  when  overtaken 
with  sickness,  step  firmly  upon  the  Rock — God.  Knowing  the 
Truth  concerning  God,  man  and  the  Universe,  then  deny  the 
reality  of  sickness,  and  speak  to  it  in  a  positive  determination, 
with  strong  words  of  command,  as  Jesus  did  to  the  Tempter 
when  he  approached  Him.  Jesus  said,  "Get  thee  behind  me, 
satan."  That  was  quite  a  scientific  thing  to  do,  because  when 
a  thing  is  behind  us,  we  no  longer  see  it;  then  we  can  more 
clearly  erase  it  from  the  memory. 

God  created  man  perfect,  upright,  happy  and  content ;  and 
placed  him  in  the  midst  of  that  abode  which  is  so  sublime,  man 
can  only  say  it  is  Paradise ;  and  this,  like  all  else,  conveys  to 
man  its  exquisiteness  in  proportion  to  his  light. 

For  man  to  become  scientificially  freed  from  the  Wheel  of 
Carnality  and  stand  at  Home,  in  consciousness,  in  the  Heart 
of  God,  a  redeemed  son  will  find  it  necessary  to  deny  from  his 
own  mentality  (not  another's),  the  reality  of  every  carnal 
illusion  until  the  Reality,  which  is  always  just  back  of  the 
unreal,  becomes  the  Real  to  his  consciousness. 

How  is  man  to  know  the  Real,  that  which  God  created,  from 
the  illusion,  or  that  which  carnal  mind  created  ? 

Return  at  once  to  the  premise,  and  step  upon  that  Rock— 
The  Absolute  Truth — God ;  then  look  into  the  appearance,  be 
it  what  it  may;  and,  if  it  does  not  square  with  God's  Perfec- 

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tion,  His  Love,  His  Purity,  His  Holiness,  His  Tenderness,  His 
Mercy,  His  Abundant  Bounty,  then  cross  the  appearance  out 
by  denials ;  know  it  is  in  the  illusive  shadow  of  illusions ;  and 
that  its  creator  is  carnal  mind,  and  it,  having  no  permanency, 
can  soon  be  reduced  to  its  native  place — nowhere. 

When  man,  through  knowledge,  insight  and  vision,  meets 
and  masters  all  the  foes  which  dwell  in  the  carnal  mind,  and 
the  mind  is  washed  by  denials,  until  it  is  clear  as  a  freshly 
washed  window  pane,  and  polished  by  affirmations  of  the 
Truth  of  Being  until  it  is  transparent;  then  it  is  God  who 
giveth  the  increase  and  fills  the  place  where  the  illusions  seem 
to  be  with  that  influx  of  His  Presence,  "as  though  they  were 
not " ;  as  when  a  pail  of  water  is  lifted  from  the  lake,  the  water 
immediately  fills  the  vacuum ;  the  water  fills  the  place  in  God 's 
Scientific  Law,  which  is  in  constant  action,  in  all  places  and 
at  all  times. 

In  the  Metaphysical  Application  of  this  Great  Principle, 
always  know  this  is  man 's  own  work ;  washing  from  his  mind 
the  mist  which  began  to  form  in  it,  in  that  long  ago,  when  he 
chose  a  change ;  or,  used  his  inherent  power  within  him,  which 
some  call  free-will.  This  free-will  being  finite,  man  will  sur- 
render it  to  the  Infinite,  our  Father-Mother-God,  before  he  is 
a  redeemed  Son  of  the  Living  God.  Man's  first  effort  toward 
that  high  state  of  consciousness,  when  he  awakens  sufficiently 
to  desire  freedom  from  the  carnal  concept,  is  to  deny  the  false 
beliefs  from  his  mind,  as  he  learns  of  their  unreality,  until  he 
attains  the  illumination  into  Freedom  Divine. 

When  man  fully  knows  the  Truth,  he  will  have,  through 
denials,  thoroughly  purged  his  mind  of  the  beliefs  of  the 
carnal  man ;  then,  by  affirming  the  divineness  and  perfection 
of  his  Real  Self,  he  perceives  the  Reality  of  all  that  is  of  God. 

Then  it  is,  that  man  in  this  Illuminated  State,  when  he  feels 
the  God  Love  overshadowing  him  and  expressing  in  his  own 
Soul  bows  in  reverential  prayer  to  the  God  that  is,  and  in 
"Whom  he  lives,  moves  and  has  his  Being." 


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FAITH 

FTER  man  has  studied  deeply  the  Message  of  Truth, 
believes  it  to  be  true,  knows  the  rules  of  application 
and  understands  concerning  this,  faith,  then,  becomes 
necessary  to  him  that  he  may  bring  this  Truth  of  Being  into 
expression. 

Faith  is  not  a  fabric  which  can  be  manufactured  by  man, 
through  taking  thought,  or  making  statements,  because  it  is  a 
gift  from  God;  then,  if  man  desires  faith,  "let  him  ask  of 
God." 

For  man  to  become  conscious  of  Faith,  deny  all  doubts, 
fears  and  superstitions  from  the  mind ;  then  affirm  the  Truth, 
and  faith  will  spring  into  evidence  within  the  mind  and  heart, 
acting  in  that  same  Law,  which  governs  the  water  when  it 
instantly  fills  the  place  in  the  lake  wherefrom  the  pail  of  water 
was  lifted. 

Faith  is  necessary ;  and  the  student-devotee  should  endeavor 
to  so  live  and  be,  that  he  is  conscious  of  faith  continually. 
The  knowing  quality  is  not  sufficient  to  burst  into  illumina- 
tion, until  faith  has  united  with  it.  St.  James,  in  writing  to 
the  student-devotees  of  Truth,  said,  "My  brethren,  count  it  all 
joy  when  ye  fall  into  divers  temptations. ' '  St.  James  1 :2. 

"Knowing  this,  that  the  trying  of  your  faith  worketh 
patience."  St.  James  1:3. 

"But  let  patience  have  her  perfect  work,  that  ye  may  be 
perfect  and  entire ;  wanting  nothing. ' '  St.  James  1 :4. 

"If  any  man  lack  wisdom,  let  him  ask  of  God,  that  giveth 
to  all  men  liberally,  and  upbraideth  not ;  and  it  shall  be  given 
him. ' '  St.  James  1 :5. 

"But  let  him  ask  in  faith,  nothing  wavering,  for  he  that 
wavereth  is  like  a  wave  of  the  sea,  driven  with  the  wind  and 
tossed."  St.  James  1:6. 

"For  let  not  that  man  think  that  he  shall  receive  anything 
of  the  Lord."  St.  James  1:7. 

"A  double-minded  man  is  unstable  in  all  his  ways."  St. 
James  1:8. 

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St.  James  also  adds:  "Let  no  man  say  when  he  is  tempted, 
I  am  tempted  of  God;  for  God  cannot  be  tempted  with  evil, 
neither  tempteth  He  any  man. ' '  St.  James  1 :13. 

"But  every  man  is  tempted,  when  he  is  drawn  away  of  his 
own  lusts,  and  enticed. ' '  St.  James  1 :14. 

' '  Then  when  lust  hath  conceived,  it  bringeth  forth  sin ;  and 
sin,  when  it  is  finished,  bringeth  forth  death. ' '  St.  James  1 :15. 

"Do  not  err,  my  beloved  brethren, "    St.  James  1:16. 

1 1  Every  good  gift  and  every  perfect  gift  is  from  above,  and 
cometh  down  from  the  Father  of  lights,  with  whom  is  no 
variableness,  neither  shadow  of  turning. "  St.  James  1:17. 

"Wherefore,  my  beloved  brethren,  let  every  man  be  swift 
to  hear,  slow  to  speak,  slow  to  wrath."  St.  James  1:19. 

"For  the  wrath  of  man  worketh  not  the  righteousness  of 
God."  St.  James  1:20. 

"For  if  any  be  a  hearer  of  the  word,  and  not  a  doer,  he  is 
like  unto  a  man  beholding  his  natural  face  in  a  glass."  St. 
James  1 :23. 

"But  who  so  looketh  into  the  perfect  law  of  liberty,  and 
continueth  therein,  he  being  not  a  forgetful  hearer,  but  a  doer 
of  the  word,  this  man  shall  be  blest  in  his  deeds."  St.  James 
1:25. 

1 '  Even  so  Faith,  if  it  hath  not  works,  is  dead,  being  alone. ' ' 
St.  James  2:17. 

Thus  we  see  in  St.  James'  teachings  that  he  shows  clearly 
the  importance  of  Faith ;  but  he  sums  it  all  up,  and  brings  it 
into  the  scientific  prayer,  when  he  says,  "Even  so  Faith  if  it 
hath  not  works  is  dead,  being  alone. ' ' 

As  long  as  man  has  faith,  strong  enough  in  God  to  pray  for 
the  recovery  of  the  sick,  and  they  are  healed ;  for  the  awaken- 
ing of  the  Spiritual  dead,  and  they  are  quickened  into  a  recog- 
nition of  the  Father's  Love,  Care  and  Protection,  'tis  well; 
and  Infinite  Love  is  pleased,  that  man  is  thus  endued. 

St.  Paul  said,  "Faith  is  the  substance  of  things  hoped  for, 
the  evidence  of  things  not  seen."  Then,  faith  being  the 
substance  of  things  hoped  for,  from  the  fact  that  man  has 
Faith,  it  is  evident  those  things  exist;  but  man  must  know 
this!  and  it  requires  understanding,  united  with  faith,  to 
bring  it  into  a  knowing  in  man's  consciousness. 

When  man  knows  a  thing,  he  has  the  evidence  of  it ;  there- 
fore, faith  is  no  longer  needed. 

Jesus  Christ  required  not  faith,  because  He  knew  God,  man, 
and  the  Universe;  and  God's  Law,  which  is  in  operation  in 
and  through  them. 
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Jesus  from  the  vantage  ground  of  illumination,  which  is 
that  Divine  Seership,  which  is  Vision,  with  understanding 
looked  into  humanity  as  He  found  it,  when  He  lived  in  a  body 
of  flesh. 

Jesus  Christ  stood  on  the  summit;  He  achieved  the  highest 
point  of  expression  that  the  Divine  Man  can  attain  here  upon 
this  earth.  He  is  the  example,  the  way-shower,  the  Teacher. 

He  called  to  the  awakened  man,  "Follow  thou  me."  Jesus 
would  not  have  thus  called,  if  it  had  not  been  possible  for  all 
awakened  men  to  follow  Him. 

We  have  Jesus  Christ  on  the  summit,  with  Illumination  and 
Vision ;  and  see  Him  doing  the  works  of  healing  the  sick,  rais- 
ing the  dead,  and  feeding  the  hungry,  (both  material  and 
spiritual  hunger). 

Let  the  student  ever  keep  before  his  mind's  eye  that  Ideal, 
Jesus  Christ,  the  Conscious  Redeemed  Son  of  God,  as  He  stood 
on  the  summit  of  the  mountain. 

But  ever  remember,  if  you  desire  to  stand  there,  you  must 
climb  the  mountain ;  and  you,  yourself  must  do  the  climbing. 
Here  is  where  faith  is  necessary ;  and  man  is  to  ask  of  God, 
"Who  giveth  liberally,  and  upbraideth  not." 

As  you  study  and  desire  to  understand,  pray  to  God  for 
guidance,  for  light,  for  wisdom. 

When  man  first  begins  to  pray,  most  likely  God  will  seem 
far  away ;  but  if  he  will  continue,  Truth  is  so  powerful  that, 
little  by  little,  man  will  know  that  he  has  touched  that  vital, 
yet  invisible  Presence. 

Man's  faith  increases  at  each  victory  over  the  obstacles 
which  confront  him  upon  his  path.  Count  not  the  time  con- 
sumed, because  some  day  the  student-devotee  will  touch  the 
border-line  of  Eternity ;  then  soon  the  limitations  of  time  are 
consumed,  by  the  knowing  quality  which  has  become  evident, 
springing  first  into  Faith,  then  into  Understanding,  then  into 
Knowing,  then  into  Realization. 

When  man  knows  absolutely,  he  then  has  the  Christ  Con- 
sciousness complete  within  him ;  it  having  grown  from  infancy 
(its  birth  in  man's  consciousness)  into  the  full  stature  of  Jesus 
Christ,  within  him;  this  is  the  Divine  Man,  the  Real  Self  of 
each  man  become  manifest,  here  on  the  earth.  This  is  man's 
destiny ;  and  it  will  be  worked  out  unto  a  finish,  here  on  this 
earth  plane,  just  as  Jesus  Christ  showed  and  proved.  If  it 
had  been  that  man  was  to  work  out  his  salvation  on  some  other 
plane,  or  planet,  Jesus  Christ  would  have  taught  differently. 

When  man  knows  the  Truth,  he  has  solved  his  problems; 

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and  no  man  knoweth  the  Truth,  it  matters  not  how  eloquently 
he  teaches  it,  until  he  can  prove  that  he  knows  it ;  and  the 
proof  is  in  living  a  holy  life,  and  in  healing  sickness,  pain, 
sorrow,  poverty,  old  age  and  death. 

Some  will  say,  this  is  a  high  standard ;  and  true  it  is.  But 
not  too  high. 

Men,  all  down  the  Ages,  have  had  gods  many;  and  have 
been  content  with  a  few  bright  stones,  which  they  have  gath- 
ered along  the  shore  of  the  illimitable  Ocean  of  Truth;  and 
content  to  dwell  in  the  midst  of  carnality ;  and  continue  in  the 
Wheel  which  winds  its  way  continually  along  amidst  birth  and 
death ;  and  in  the  Web  of  Time. 

Jesus  Christ 's  Message  is,  * '  Launch  out  into  the  deep  ! ' ' 
And  in  Faith  in  God  and  yourself, — in  prayer,  cut  all  ropes 
which  bind  you  to  carnality;  and  cast  anchor  in  the  Abso- 
lute ;  where  time  is  left  behind  on  the  land,  where  the  shores 
are  shifting  sands:  and  sail,  in  the  Eternality  of  that  which 
IS ;  and  this  is  God ;  the  All  in  All— Our  Father-Mother. 

It  requires  Faith,  for  the  awakened  man  to  enter  the  Boat  of 
Truth,  where  there  are  no  oars,  God  being  the  helmsman ;  and 
to  abide  in  the  Boat,  believing  God's  hand  is  steering  the  bark. 
But,  if  man  can  gain  faith  sufficiently  strong  right  there,  he 
soon  will  feel  the  Presence  of  God ;  and  see  the  working  of  this 
Great  Law  so  clearly,  that  he  of  a  surety  perceives  God's 
Power  and  Presence. 

Then  man,  one  by  one,  cuts  the  ropes  which  bind  him  to 
the  illusions,  which  the  false  beliefs  of  the  carnal  mind  have 
wrought;  then  he  rests  serenely  in  the  Boat;  he  then  knows 
God  is  at  the  helm ;  and  he  abides  continually  and  trustingly 
in  the  care  of  the  Loving  Father-Mother-God. 

At  this  place  man  is  Conscious  Atman,  having  the  illumina- 
tion of  his  Divine  Self.  He  has  finished  his  problem  when  he 
Realizes  his  At-One-Ment  with  God. 


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APPLICATION 

HE  standard  of  this  message  is  The  Absolute :  but  for 
man  to  study  these  lessons  as  he  would  read  a  book, 
just  cramming  the  intellect,  it  will  avail  him  little 
indeed. 

The  Cosmic  is  vibrant  with  the  Infinite  Principle,  and, 
when  man  becomes  alert  to  this  great  Truth  and  understand- 
ingly  in  tune  therewith,  he  has  learned  many  of  the  deep 
things  of  God;  then,  if  he  desires  to  become  in  at-one-ment 
with  the  great  Cosmic  Heart,  and  touch  the  secret  spring 
thereof,  that  the  perfect  expression  of  the  God  Law  become 
evident,  he  must  apply  the  deep  truths  which  he  has  learned. 
If  he  does  not  apply  the  rules,  or  voice  the  prayer,  he  stands 
in  the  same  current  as  those  who  do  not  know  concerning  the 
principle  of  Truth.  Therefore,  if  sickness  seems  to  be,  it  will 
exhaust  itself,  or  cause  the  body  to  succumb,  and  death  take 
place  with  the  one  who  understands  the  God-Law  and  its 
application,  if  he  does  not  use  it,  (if  he  has  not  attained  unto 
illumination  so  deep  that  it  is  Realization,)  just  the  same 
as  with  the  one  who  knows  not  of  it. 

The  one  who  studies  The  Higher  Metaphysics,  and  daily 
applies  its  rules,  will  begin  almost  at  once  to  pass  into  clearer 
light,  and  his  health  of  body  will  become  evident  in  proportion 
to  his  realization  of  the  Truth  which  is  the  foundation. 

When  man  awakens  from  the  carnal  slumber, — (we  read  in 
Genesis,  that  Adam  went  to  sleep ;  this  signifies  the  carnal 
concept;  as  long  as  man  is  sleeping  soundly,  he  is  conscious 
only  of  the  outer  self;) — but  when  he  awakens,  his  Soul,  the 
Real  Divine  Self,  has  begun  to  stir  within  him ;  and  his  carnal 
mind  feels  that  a  change  of  heart  has  taken  place ;  then  he  no 
longer  is  satisfied  with  the  life  of  the  surface,  (the  carnal  life)  ; 
he  then  discovers  he  is,  "In  a  far  country ;"  and,  having  awak- 
ened, he  begins  to  think  of  that  other  clime  from  which  he 
departed,  even  as  Adam,  when  he  stepped  from  the  Garden  of 
Eden.  "My  Soul  panteth  after  thee,  0  God,"  King  David 
exclaimed. 

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"We  give  a  practical  application  of  the  rules,  which,  if 
applied,  will  assist  man  to  pass  into  a  new  country.  This  does 
not  signify  a  change  of  locality,  but  a  change  in  states  of  con- 
sciousness. Man  will  then  live  in  the  conception  of  the  Truth, 
having  passed  away  from  the  old  conception  of  things. 

It  is  well  to  remember  a  man  while  asleep  accomplishes 
nothing.  Though  in  his  dreams  he  may  travel  to  far  lands 
and  have  many  dealings  with  his  fellow  man,  when  he 
awakens  he  is  in  the  same  place.  Then  he  realizes  that  the 
dream  was  only  the  will-o  '-the-wisp ;  he  even  smiles  at  the 
reality  it  seemed  to  express. 

When  God  created  man  He  caused  him  to  become  an  indi- 
vidualized manifestation  of  Himself ;  and  this  individuality  is 
Divine  man  in  expression;  and  he  was  placed  in  the  perfect 
Spiritual  Universe. 

Man  gradually  lost  consciousness  of  this,  as  the  mist  formed 
in  his  mind,  until  all  memory  of  his  Divine  Self  is  lost ;  and  he 
lives  in  the  Adam-sleep ;  but  when  man  awakens  and  has  gained 
understanding,  he  will  smile  at  the  seeming  reality  of  the  illu- 
sions which  controlled  him  while  he  lived,  asleep  in  the  Adam- 
dream,  which  Jesus,  in  His  parable,  calls  the  Far  Country. 
Jesus  portrayed  man  at  that  place  as  feeding  the  swine.  That 
is  the  state  of  concept,  where  man  is  living  in  the  sense  nature 
only.  By  man,  we  mean  man  and  woman,  because,  ' '  Male  and 
female  created  He  the  men  of  earth. ' ' 

But,  when  the  Soul  bursts  its  bounds  and  begins  to  express, 
it  thirsteth  for  the  Living  Water,  and  hungers  for  Spiritual 
Bread.  Man  attains  these  here  and  now  through  faith,  knowl- 
edge and  understanding  sufficiently  deep  that  Love  and  Devo- 
tion spring  forth  from  his  heart  to  the  Living  God,  the  Omni- 
present One ;  in  Whom  he  lives,  and  has  his  being ;  even  as  the 
spring  of  cool  water  bursts  forth  from  the  mountain  side. 

When  the  student  has  become  convinced  that  God,  and  God 
manifest  is  all  there  in  reality  IS,  and  desires  to  bring  himself 
into  that  Realization,  he  can  apply  the  rules  given,  and  he  will 
soon  become  convinced  of  the  truthfulness  of  the  Message  of 
Jesus. 

When  a  student-devotee  is  called  to  one  who  is  stricken 
with  sickness,  he  may  go  direct  to  his  bed-side,  or,  if  the  situa- 
tion requires,  he  can  give  the  prayer  from  the  distance,  remem- 
bering always  that  God  is  Omnipresent ;  and  that  the  one,  who 
is  sick,  is  living  in  that  very  presence,  even  though  he  may  be 
thousands  of  miles  away. 

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When  called  to  the  bed-side  of  the  afflicted,  enter  the  sick 
chamber  with  the  full  understanding  of  the  fundamental  prin- 
ciple of  Truth ;  then  the  manifestation  of  disease,  in  any  form, 
will  not  disturb  you. 

The  first  thing,  when  called  to  the  sick,  either  in  body,  mind 
or  environments,  is  to  go  to  God  in  Prayer.  Enter  the  silent 
chamber  of  your  own  Soul.  It  is  necessary  you  bring  your 
thoughts  under  subjection,  that  the  mind  may  become  quiet, 
that  you  may  become  conscious  that  you  are  in  the  very  pres- 
ence of  God.  It  is  well  to  clearly  perceive,  it  matters  not  what 
the  environment  may  be,  be  it  the  slums,  or  the  palace  of 
kings;  for  God  is  Omnipresent;  which  means  everywhere. 
Ask  of  God,  the  great  Over-Soul, — and  the  indwelling  Pres- 
ence, to  sustain  you  as  you  minister  to  the  afflicted;  to  over- 
shadow you;  also,  to  be  your  indwelling  strength  and  con- 
sciousness ;  ask  for  wisdom  to  pray,  and  what  to  do  and  say, 
and  close  this  prayer  by  saying,  li  Father,  I  request  this  in 
and  through  Christ,  in  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ." 

When  the  student-devotee  enters  the  sick  chamber,  being 
thus  equipped,  he  is  calm,  serene  and  confident.  Then  let  him 
enter  the  silent  precinct  of  his  own  Soul,  and  there,  in  con- 
scious at-one-ment  with  the  Father,  voice  in  the  silence  that 
prayer  as  the  Father  guides  him.  If  he  has  arrived  at  vision, 
he  clearly  sees  through  the  condition :  and,  if  his  vision  is  the 
Christ-Vision,  which  is  ladened  with  conscious  at-one-ment 
with  the  Father;  and  the  Oneness  of  that  which  is;  he  can 
Vision  the  sickness  into  nothing  in  his  own  concept;  and,  in 
proportion  to  the  attunement  of  the  one  who  desires  assistance 
from  his  prayer,  will  they  receive  the  benefit.  His  only  effort 
is  with  himself,  that  he  realize  the  Truth  as  it  forever  is. 
Then  it  is  the  work  of  those  who  desire  assistance  to  attune 
themselves,  through  insight,  that  they  may  receive  the  quick- 
ening from  out  the  great  Cosmic  Heart,  when  the  vibrations 
are  responsive  to  the  prayer  of  the  illumined  one.  Never  be 
anxious,  neither  especially  concerned,  if  the  one  for  whom 
you  pray,  responds  or  not.  As  the  sage  necessarily  must 
understand  the  underlying  laws  which  operate  throughout  car- 
nality. However,  a  sage  only  recognizes,  as  the  Real,  the  God- 
Law  ;  knowing,  that  when  the  carnal  delusion  is  cleaerd  away, 
there  is  the  God-Law  in  operation,  even  as  it  was  when  it  was 
covered  with  the  carnal  debris,  and  the  unawakened  one  only 
perceived  the  carnal  expression. 

The  Metaphysical  Prayer,  using  it  in  the  understanding  of 
the  princiole  as  portrayed,  is  to  deny  the  disease,  deny  its 

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reality,  and  affirm  the  perfection  of  the  Real  Man.  Thor- 
oughly knowing  that  the  Real  Self  of  each  and  all  men  cannot 
be  sick ;  from  the  very  fact  that  a  Divine  thing,  being  divinity, 
could  not  be  touched,  therefore,  never  contaminated  by  sick- 
ness in  any  form;  neither  affected  by  undesirable  environ- 
ments. 

In  using  the  Scientific  Prayer,  be  clear  in  your  understand- 
ing, that  it  is  God  who  doeth  the  works.  His  Law,  ever  being 
in  action,  when  the  spell  of  sickness  is  broken,  the  place  is 
filled  with  the  realization  of  health,  which  has  ever  been  true 
of  his  Real  Self.  This  realization  comes  from  the  God  within, 
and  not  from  the  carnal  mind.  It  comes  in  and  fills  the  place 
where  the  belief  of  sickness  was,  just  as  the  water  of  its  own 
volition  fills  the  vacuum  wherefrom  the  pail  of  water  was 
taken.  None  ask  how  the  water  immediately  fills  the  vacuum, 
because  man,  being  ever  accustomed  to  seeing  the  water  thus 
respond,  does  not  give  it  a  passing  thought. 

When  man  fully  ' '  Knows  the  Truth, ' '  and  consciously  lives 
in  exercise  of  his  God-given  dominion,  an  individualized 
expression  of  the  Living  God;  he  will  become  so  accustomed 
to  seeing  the  Living  God  become  evident  at  all  places,  and  in 
all  conditions,  when  he  voices  the  denials  which  tear  down 
the  seeming  structure  called  disease,  pain  or  poverty ;  and  the 
expression  of  the  good,  the  true,  the  perfect  and  harmonious 
become  manifest;  that,  he,  in  that  illuminated  state,  will 
rejoice  ever. 

Then  let  man,  in  grateful  humility,  return  thanks  to  the 
Infinite,  our  Father-Mother-God ;  Whom  he  now  knows  is  ever 
near,  ever  tender,  ever  true. 

When  man  is  thus  equipped  to  be  of  assistance  to  his  fellow 
man,  he  is  in  the  Will  of  the  Infinite;  and  is  truly  walking 
upon  the  Sacred  Path. 

As  man  moves  along  the  Sacred  Path,  each  step  brings  a 
clearer  light,  and  a  stronger  realization,  until  he  arrives  at 
the  place  where  he  has  left  The  Higher  Metaphysics  behind 
him;  as  it  is  only  given  to  man  that  he  may  cleanse  his  own 
mentality  of  the  carnal  illusions,  which  all  men  inherit  as  a 
legacy  from  the  carnal  side  of  his  being,  and,  when  man 's  mind 
is  cleansed,  and  he  in  loving  reverence  and  devotion  turns  to 
the  Omnipresent  God,  then  the  place  in  his  consciousness 
becomes  filled  with  the  Essence  Divine,  as  he  being  a  drop  of 
the  Ocean  Absolute,  is  at-one  with  it.  He  then  is  a  new 
creature,  and  old  things  (concepts) ,  have  passed  away ;  because 
he  has  become  conscious  of  his  at-one-ment  with  God.  The 
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carnal  mind,  having  become  merged  into  the  God-mind,  there 
is  no  more  need  for  The  Higher  Metaphysics.  Then  man  can 
commune  as  confidingly,  serenely  and  sweetly  with  the  Father- 
Mother-God,  as  our  Elder  Brother  did. 

How  then  can  the  things  of  earth,  they  being  dressed  in  the 
changing  garb  of  nature,  longer  disturb  him?  They  cannot! 
He  is  anchored  in  God. 


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THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
MAN  As  HE  Is  AND  As  HE  SEEMS  TO  BE 

and  His  manifestation,  is  all  there  really  is.  In  An- 
cient Scripture  we  read,  "God  was  the  One;  He  de- 
sired to  become  the  many,  and  creation  sprang  forth, ' ' 
— expressed  in  form,  according  to  its  degree  of  expression. 

The  Infinite  Universe  is  the  impersonal  and  omnipresent 
God,  from  which,  and  into  which,  the  myriad  of  systems  of 
universes  took  form  and  exist.  This  is  the  First  and  only 
Cause  of  that  which  it  expressed  into  form. 

There  is  only  One ;  * '  There  is  naught  beside  Him. ' '  This  is 
the  Absolute,  "in  whom  there  is  no  variableness,  neither 
shadow  of  turning. ' '  There  are  no  shadows  there,  as  relativity 
does  not  express  there. 

Let  the  student  get  his  mind  filled,  even  unto  perception 
complete,  of  the  Absolute  as  it  really  is,  which  is  the  imper- 
sonal God,  who  is  Omnipresent,  Omnipotent  and  Omniscient; 
and,  that  this  is  the  Ocean  Essence  Divine,  the  great  Over- 
Soul  and  the  Supreme  Spirit  of  the  Universe;  and,  that  this 
greatness  expressed  Itself  into  forms  of  its  own  Essence  (as 
there  was  no  other),  into  universes  and  myriad  systems  of 
universes,  and  all  forms  within  them. 

Man  is  the  highest  expression;  because  God  expressed  His 
conscious  mind  in  him.  Man  is  a  reasoning,  comprehending 
being,  destined,  when  he  is  consciously  the  full-grown  man  in 
the  statue  of  Jesus  Christ,  to  stand  forth  in  conscious  under- 
standing, in  full  realization ;  that  he  is  an  expression  of  God. 
Then  it  is  that  the  carnal  spell  is  broken,  the  shadow  of  illu- 
sion dispelled,  and  he  perceives  that  he,  too,  is  a  son  of  the 
Living  God,  and  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  Elder  Brother  who 
proclaimed  to  mankind  the  truth  of  man's  being,  and  proved 
by  His  example,  in  His  life  and  His  works,  that  man  is  to 
return  to  the  Father's  House.  Jesus  said,  "Follow  thou  me !" 

When  the  man  whom  God  created,  or  caused  to  become 
manifest,  began  to  take  cognizance  of  the  shadows  of  the  Real, 
he  gradually  moved  out  into  them,  and  became  lost.  When  he 

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awakens  from  his  long  slumber,  he  finds  himself  as  Jesus  por- 
trayed in  His  parable,  the  Prodigal  Son. 

When  man  awakens  from  the  Adam  Sleep,  neither  the 
things  nor  the  experiences  of  carnality  satisfy  him. 

When  man  awakens,  his  Soul  begins  to  express  to  his  con- 
scious self;  and  the  Soul  desires  the  Bread  from  Heaven. 
Then  it  is  man  begins  to  search  for  the  hidden  manna,  hidden 
from  the  carnal  man,  because  he  cannot  perceive  it.  It  is  the 
Soul, — that  Divine  Self, — which  God  expressed  into  form  at 
that  dawn,  " where  man's  mind  runs  not  to  the  contrary." 
Thus  we  see  man  as  he  is  and  as  he  seems  to  be. 

The  seeming  is  the  great  Carnal  Illusion;  and  man,  in  the 
carnal  concept  of  himself,  lives  and  expresses  in  Maya,  the 
Forest  of  Illusion.  Nothing  in  carnality  satisfies  the  Soul  of 
Man,  his  Divine  Self.  Therefore,  we  find  our  brothers,  even 
those  surrounded  with  luxury  and  wealth  at  their  command, 
ever  feeling  an  unrest  within  them.  This  is  the  urge  of  the 
Soul,  endeavoring  to  arouse  the  outer  self  who  seems  to  be  the 
man,  but,  in  reality,  is  only  the  outer  temple.  "Ye  are  the 
Temple  of  the  Living  God." 

Man  awakens  in  a  far  country.  His  face  is  turned  away 
from  God.  He  is  looking  in  the  opposite  direction.  Therefore 
has  he  in  concept  strayed  into  a  far  country.  Having  lost  his 
conscious  link  with  the  Omnipresent  God,  he  is  as  a  rudderless 
ship  upon  the  great  ocean  of  carnality,  with  no  anchor  to  cast ; 
therefore  adrift  upon  a  shoreless  sea;  but  the  sea  is  only  the 
surface  of  the  omnipresence  that  is  God ;  and  the  Real  Self  of 
man  is  ever  the  manifestation  of  God.  Then  let  man  right 
here  bestir  himself  as  the  prodigal  son  did,  by  examining  him- 
self ;  for  then,  it  is  that  man  desires  to  draw  closer  to  God, 
saying,  "I  will  arise  and  go  to  my  Father."  There  is  the 
journey  back  to  the  Father's  House.  Having  turned  about, 
man  begins  his  journey  within  himself,  by  using  the  shuttle  of 
Life,  and  unweaving  the  part  of  the  pattern  that  should  be 
erased,  and  bringing  into  perfect  expression  that  which  is 
incomplete.  When  man  awakens,  he  then  begins  to  express 
his  Real  Self,  the  Self  which  God  caused  to  become  manifest  at 
the  dawn.  This  man  continues  to  do,  as  he  journeys  toward 
Home,  the  Father's  House, — man's  destination. 

When  man  arrives  at  full  enlightenment,  he  expresses  the 
Real  Self,  "which  God  created  in  His  image  and  likeness." 
Gen.  1. 

This  Real  Self  is  a  Soul  of  the  great  Over-Soul,  and  as 
inseparable  from  it  as  the  ray  is  from  the  sun.  Separate  the 

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ray  from  the  sun  and  it  becomes  extinct.  Should  man,  God's 
self  expressed  into  form,  become  disjoined  from  the  Over- 
Soul,  man  would  not  be ; — a  thing  which  can  never  take  place, 
because  God,  Himself,  is  expressed  into  forms;  and  God 
cannot  become  separated ;  neither  can  any  part  of  Him  become 
extinct.  What  God  has  done,  He  has  done;  and,  "He  pro- 
nounced it  finished. "  Therefore,  the  Real  Self,  which  is  the 
Son  of  God  (because  God  brought  him  forth  from  His  formless 
Essence  into  form  within  himself,  and  God  is  the  Infinite), 
has  no  place  to  dwell  but  in  God. 

Man,  in  the  dream  of  carnality,  only  perceives  himself  as 
the  Adam  Man,  subject  to  birth,  death,  growth  and  limitations 
in  general,  because  the  finite  is  limited  at  all  points.  Freedom 
does  not  exist  in  the  realm  of  carnality.  The  carnal  man  must 
pierce  the  veil,  which  hangs  in  the  midst  of  the  Temple,  ere 
he  perceives  the  possibility  of  the  freedom  of  the  Sons  of  God. 
When  this  takes  place,  he  has  been  born  again,  and,  as  this 
Christ-child  consciousness  expands  his  outer  concept,  he  will, 
in  time,  become  conscious  that  he,  too,  is  a  Christed  child  of 
God,  an  Enlightened  one.  Then  man  has  arrived  at  Home,  as 
the  Christ  light  of  the  Real  Self  shines  brighter,  the  outer 
temple  becomes  quickened  into  a  Light  Divine,  reflected  from 
the  Real  Self,  who  is  the  sovereign  that  abides  within ;  and,  as 
the  Christ  light  of  the  Real  Self  shines  brighter,  the  outer 
temple,  the  body,  will  become  quickened  into  the  vibration  of 
the  Soul, — the  Real  Self,  which  is  forever  at-one  with  the 
great  Over-Soul,  which  is  Conscious  Life  in  action;  and  the 
outer  man,  vibrating  in  the  vibration  of  conscious  Life,  becomes 
Immortal,  and  stands  forth  a  master  over  the  last  enemy, 
death.  Jesus  Christ  brought  this  forth  in  His  example  to 
prove  to  man,  when  he  has  finished  his  wanderings  in  the  forest 
of  illusion  and  is  ready  to  merge  from  the  generation  period 
into  the  regeneration  period;  that  man  will  stand  forth 
redeemed.  Complete  redemption  is  the  message  of  the  Abso- 
lute in  the  message  and  example  of  Jesus  Christ.  Then  it  is 
that  man  passes  into  the  seventh  heaven,  or,  as  Gautama 
Buddha  expressed  it,  Nirvana ;  both  of  which  mean  the  finished 
or  redeemed  state. 

Then  it  is  man  has  consciously  found  himself,  and  that  he 
is  at  Home  in  God.  He  then  perceives  that  he  has  never 
departed  therefrom ;  but,  by  looking  at  the  shadows,  he  became 
lost  in  their  seeming  reality,  and  wandered  many  weary  years 
over  a  rough  path.  The  sunlight  being  obscured  by  the 

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shadows,  he  lingered  long  upon  the  stony  shore  of  the  calm 
ocean  of  Life. 

This  change  in  man  is  not  brought  about  by  passing  through 
death,  but  through  the  Christ-Enlightenment,  which  first 
reveals  to  him  that,  he,  being  an  expression  of  God,  is  a  Son 
of  God ;  and  in  the  full  realization  of  this  Truth  of  his  being, 
he  will,  through  this  Light,  it  being  ' '  That  Light  which  light- 
eth  every  man  who  cometh  into  the  world, "  become  that  Con- 
scious Light.  Through  this  Light  which  he  is,  he  perceives 
that  he  is  a  grain  of  the  Ocean  Essence  Divine,  a  drop  in  the 
Ocean  of  Omnipresence,  which  is  God.  This  is  the  highest 
illumination  for  man  on  this  planet,  as  it  brings  him  to  the 
mountain  summit;  and  he  there  stands  a  radiant  individual 
Soul  of  the  great  Over-Soul  and,  consciously  forever  at-one 
with  the  Omnipresent  God.  Jesus  said,  "The  Father  and  I 
are  one ;  but  the  Father  is  greater  than  I. ' '  Therefore,  when 
man  thus  stands,  he  is  the  greatness  of  God  expressed;  and 
humility  is  his  robe,  and  brotherly  kindness  and  compasison 
are  his  hand-maidens ;  and,  from  that  place  divine,  he  proves 
a  blessing  to  mankind.  This  is  man's  greatest  privilege  in 
the  divine  plan — to  serve !  Yes,  to  prove  himself  a  blessing, 
even  as  the  flowers  do.  They  bloom  in  all  perfection,  dressed 
in  the  myriad  hues  of  the  rainbow,  and  radiate  their  fragrance, 
ever  expressing  their  perfection ;  and  all  who  pass  by,  be  they 
high  or  low,  rich  or  poor,  are  welcome  to  behold  their  beauty 
and  inhale  their  fragrance ;  and  the  wise  will  appreciate  them, 
if  they  be  orchid  or  sunflower,  violet  or  rose. 

A  Sage,  having  attained  enlightenment,  dons  the  robe  of 
humility  while  he  is  on  the  mountain  summit.  He,  wearing 
this  robe,  returns  to  the  valley  where  mankind  is  living,  lost 
in  the  shadow  of  the  carnal  illusion.  He  smiles  at  their  illu- 
sions, but  with  tolerance  and  compassion ;  and  so  long  as  it  is 
his  privilege  to  so  do  he  assists  all  who  will  permit  him,  that 
they  may  attain  enlightenment  and  live  the  life  of  the  God- 
conscious  one  here  upon  earth. 

The  outer  and  the  inner,  the  seeming,  and  that  which  is,  will 
reveal  themselves ;  Illumination  will  pierce  the  veil,  and  then 
man  perceives  he  is  at  Home. 

The  Omnipresent  God  is  the  Ocean  of  Light,  Life,  Love, 
Intelligence,  Power  and  Action,  in  which  man  forever  abides. 
"There  is  naught  to  fear  in  all  God's  Holy  Mountain." 

Climb  to  the  mountain  top,  friends.  Then,  having  drunk 
long  and  deep  from  the  fountain  there,  return  to  the  men  of 
earth  and  give  to  them  the  refreshing  draught.  So  be  it. 

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REALITY 

E  still  and  know  that  I  am  God." 

"He  that  dwelleth  in  the  secret  place  of  the  most 
High,  shall  abide  in  the  shadow  of  the  Almighty." 
Psalm  91:1. 

If  there  were  no  Reality ;  if  there  were  no  Omnipresence  in 
the  Ocean  Divine,  humanity's  bark  would  be  adrift  upon  an 
uncertain  sea,  and  with  no  compass  it  would  forever  drift  with 
the  low  tide,  or  ride  upon  the  crest  of  the  billowy  waves ;  no 
compass,  no  anchor,  no  guiding  hand,  no  "Still  Voice"  to 
whisper,  "Be  still  and  know  that  I  am  God." 

The  Reality  is  just  back  of  the  surface.  The  man  is  within 
his  garment.  Life  is  within  the  rose  bush,  and  expresses  the 
rose. 

There  is  but  one  Presence ; — the  Omnipresent  God  Essence, 
in  form  and  unmanif est.  In  this  very  center  of  God,  the  vibra- 
tion of  the  Conscious  Life  Action  is  so  great  that  a  silent 
stillness  seems  to  exist.  Because  it  is  such  a  high  rate  of  Life 
Action,  man  cannot  register  it.  As  the  earth  and  all  expressed 
forms  act  in  their  individual  capacity ;  in  the  belief  of  separa- 
tion, the  vibrations  are  lower;  and  continue  to  become  lower 
until  the  outer  surface  is  a  very  low  rate  of  vibration ;  and  this 
is  called  nature ;  and  here  we  find  trees  clothed  in  bark,  birds 
in  dresses  of  feathers,  animals  with  coats  of  fur,  and  man 
within  an  outer  temple  in  the  vibration  of  nature,  which  is,  as 
it  were,  throughout  the  surface  of  infinity. 

When  man  is  in  a  low  or  heavy  rate  of  vibration  (by  man 
we  here  refer  to  the  human  family  upon  this,  or  any  planet), 
the  whole  planet  is  vibrating  low ;  when  the  Spiritual  Age,  or 
cycle  arrives,  man  comes  into  a  more  spiritual  state  of  con- 
cept, and  the  vibrations  of  the  planet  greatly  raise,  and  lo! 
the  New  Age. 

This  is  the  age  when  mankind  is  to  become  redeemed  from 
the  thraldom  of  the  Great  Illusion, — the  surface;  and  seek 
the  center  where  the  vibrations  of  God  vibrate  in  the  certainty 
of  the  eternal  Omnipresence  of  the  Omnipotent  God. 
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Then,  as  man  awakens  to  the  Truth  of  his  own  Being  and 
perceives  this  is  the  Truth  of  every  one's  Being,  and  that  God 
is  a  Living  Reality,  he,  then,  seeking  for  enlightenment,  will 
wash  the  window  of  his  Soul  (his  mind),  through  and  by 
denials,  until  all  accumulation  of  debris  (past  superstitions, 
prejudices,  bigotry  and  conceit),  are  eliminated;  and  the 
polishing  process  has  proceeded,  until  the  mind  is  transpar- 
ency, and  the  Infinite  ever  expressing  there;  and  the  eyes, 
expressing  the  Light  that  radiates  within  his  heart,  it  being 
the  center  where  the  spiritual  self  continues  in  conscious  life 
action ;  as  the  physical  heart  is  the  center  of  the  physical  life 
action;  Blood!  Yes!  Vital  indeed  is  blood  to  the  physical 
man,  and  vital  indeed  is  the  River  of  Life  which  flows  through 
the  Real  Self,  the  Spiritual  Man. 

As  man  becomes  enlightened  into  the  Christ  Life,  the  vibra- 
tion of  God  Life,  Immortality,  vibrates  through  the  Temple, 
the  physical  man;  and,  as  man  through  this  inner  light 
becomes  balanced,  poised  and  serene,  the  vibrations  of  the 
outer  man  raise,  and,  at  the  crucial  time,  when  man  is 
redeemed,  in  body,  mind,  soul  and  spirit,  the  vibration  of  the 
inner  man,  who  is  in  the  vibration  of  the  Heart  of  God — 
Conscious  Life — will  become  one.  Then  the  outer  becomes 
the  inner,  or  the  Real  Self  absorbs  the  outer  self,  and  man 
becomes  One,  and  the  River  of  Life  flows  through  his  Being. 
The  blood  of  the  physical  man,  then,  becomes  merged  into  the 
River  of  Life. 

'Tis  God  who  giveth  the  increase;  and  man,  acquiescing  to 
the  Will  of  God,  becomes  illumined  into  the  Realization  of  the 
Reality,  as  it  IS. 

Higher  Metaphysics  is  that  which  assists  the  individual  to 
first  purify  his  own  mind,  then  to  so  polish  it,  that  the  carnal 
mind  of  man  becomes  lost, — merged  into  the  God-mind,  which 
is  the  Infinite  Intelligence  individualized  in  man.  The  con- 
fused mind  of  man  is  all  that  hangs  between  himself  and  his 
God.  It  is  the  veil  in  the  Temple  which  must  be  rent  in  twain. 

In  the  light  of  this  New  Age,  God  is  causing  flash-lights  of 
Truth  to  be  revealed  to  man.  Higher  Metaphysics  is  that 
flash-light  which  assists  man  to  eliminate  from  his  conception 
the  false  ideas  of  carnality,  that  the  Real  may  become  evident 
in  expression. 

The  Higher  Metaphysics  does  not  deal  with  thoughts  in  any 
way,  as  they  are  the  product  of  the  carnal  mind;  and  the 
carnal  mind  will  become  merged  into  that  which  is  the  Real, 
the  Infinite  Intelligence.  This  brings  man  into  the  state  of 

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illumination  where  lie  knows,  even  as  God  would  have  him 
to  know.  To  attain  unto  this  full  illumination,  man  merges 
from  the  carnal  intellectual  concept  into  the  Divine  concept. 
This  is  before  man.  Attain  thereunto,  brothers,  and  thou 
canst  rest  in  Peace. 


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PART  TWO 

LESSON  1 
THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

"Goo  RESTS  IN  ACTION" 

S  God  rests  in  action,  man,  to  express  God,  must  rest  in 
action.  Here  is  where  the  learning  process  comes  in. 
Knowledge  is  necessary  to  each  individual  ere  he  can 
understandingly  place  himself  in  harmonious  rhythm  with  the 
vibration  of  the  Infinite ;  and,  thereby,  become  attuned  under- 
standingly, so  he  can  live  day  by  day,  "as  unto  the  Lord." 

Man  through  deep  devotion  at  times  touches  the  chord 
which  causes  him  to  vibrate  in  such  rhythm  that  he  is  filled 
with  ecstasy ;  but  often  as  the  outer  things  claim  his  attention, 
he  looses  this  conscious  link,  and  sinks  back  into  the  previous 
state  with  only  a  sweet  memory  of  having  touched  the  Divine 
Chord. 

Through  study  man  gains  knowledge  which,  when  guided 
by  wisdom,  brings  him  to  the  understanding  which  enables 
him  to  live  in  such  close  rapport  with  the  Infinite,  our  Father- 
Mother-God,  that  he,  vibrating  in  that  vibration,  is  in  accord 
with  the  Essence  Divine ;  and  the  God-conscious  Beings,  who 
are  unceasingly  and  untiringly  about  the  Father's  business, 
come  to  assist  the  student-devotee  as  they  move  along  the 
Path. 

God  is  Life.  Life  is  Action.  Life  is  ceaseless  action.  When 
man  gleans  the  light  sufficiently  clear,  so  he  can  understand- 
ingly become  Conscious  Life,  he  then  enters  into  the  Ocean  of 
Life  Essence,  which  is  Action ;  and  he  understandingly  abides 
there.  Then  it  is  man,  too,  "Rests  in  Action." 

To  attain  this  state  of  Enlightenment,  man  has  penetrated 
the  mist  and  crossed  the  line  which  ever  lies  between  the  rela- 
tive— that  which  seems  to  be  the  real — and  the  Real — that 
which  God  is  in  expression. 

The  Higher  Metaphysics  assists  man  as  he  passes  onward 
toward  final  illumination;  as  he,  through  understanding  the 
working  hypothesis,  ever  remembers  to,  through  and  by 
denials,  erase  all  false  beliefs  and  conceptions  from,  his  mind. 

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In  fact,  little  by  little,  the  carnal  concept  of  man's  self  is 
washed  out,  and  in  its  place  comes  the  perception  of  the  Real 
Self.  That  which  God  caused  to  become  manifest,  and  is 
destined,  sometime,  to  stand  redeemed,  and  to  express  the 
glory  of  God. 

"We  read  in  Genesis,  the  first  chapter,  that  "God  created 
man  in  His  image  and  likeness,"  and  gave  man  dominion 
over  the  earth.  This  means  man's  outer,  or  carnal  mind  and 
body.  The  body,  being  the  shadow  of  the  beliefs  in  the  carnal 
mind,  the  student  can  see  to  erase  the  false  and  undesirable 
beliefs  from  the  outer  mind,  the  body  necessarily  changes;  as 
when  the  cause  is  removed,  the  shadow  must  change. 

When  man  reaches  the  place  upon  his  path,  where  he  is 
becoming  the  ripe  fruit  upon  the  carnal  tree,  then  it  is,  when 
be  cleanses  his  outer  mind,  through  and  by  denials,  that  the 
One  Mind, — God's  Mind,  will  become  enthroned;  and,  finally, 
the  carnal  mind  is  gone  and  he  lives  in  the  Consciousness 
Divine.  This  is  the  illuminated  state  of  a  Sage;  and  he 
mourns  neither  for  the  living  nor  the  dead.  Death  is  a  portal 
through  which  man  passes  into  a  broader  life  and  greater 
freedom.  Birth  is  stepping  across  the  portal  into  limitation. 
Birth  and  death  are  the  pairs  of  opposites  which  the  Illum- 
ined Sage  no  longer  sees  upon  his  Path,  as  he  has  passed  out 
from  the  great  forest  of  illusions, — carnality. 

As  man  nears  the  edge  of  the  elusive  forest,  he  begins  to 
learn  that  God,  the  Omnipresent  Aum,  "Bests  in  Action." 
Man,  having  grown  weary  from  his  long  dwelling  in  Maya, 
feels  the  desire  for  inaction.  This  is  the  carnal  deceiver — 
or  adversary;  and,  if  man  will  listen  to  its  stupifying  voice, 
he  wTill  succumb  to  stagnation.  This  is  the  beginning  of  old 
age,  and  ends  in  death  to  the  outer  body;  as  stagnation  is 
death. 

Let  the  inflow  and  outlet  of  a  lake  become  blocked,  and  soon 
there  is  a  stagnant  pond  of  water;  and  fish,  bird  or  reptile 
can  no  longer  drink  it.  Open  the  outflow  and  inlet,  and  soon 
the  water  is  pure  again. 

Life  is  Action.  Stagnation,  or  inaction,  is  death.  By  action, 
we  do  not  refer  to  the  outer  action  of  the  body  or  mind ;  but 
inner  understanding  concerning  the  Eternality  and  unchanga- 
bleness  of  Action  as  God.  This,  being  God's  natural  state, 
He  rests  in  it.  When  man  has  the  full  Light,  he,  too,  will 
understandingly  rest  in  Action ;  as  this  is  Immortality.  This 
state  is  calmness,  peace,  serenity,  harmony,  Love;  yea,  it  is 
God-Consciousness. 

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THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
WISDOM 

HERE  is  a  mystery,  in  the  Realization  of  the  Truth,  to 
the  uninitiated. 

It  is  easy  for  man  to  learn  how  to  cleanse  his  mind, 
if  he  so  desires.  Then  the  next  step  is  to  learn  how  to  con- 
centrate his  mind,  in  the  cleansed  mentality;  that  it  cease, 
while  he  is  in  this  practice,  from  creating  thoughts.  When  man 
learns,  that  all  the  thoughts  which  the  carnal  mind  creates  are 
of  the  earth,  because  the  carnal  mind  in  man  knows  only  of 
the  carnal  man,  his  life  and  environments,  which  is  as  unstable 
before  the  God-conscious  man,  as  the  stubble  is  before  the 
approaching  fire ;  then  he  will  perceive  the  importance  of  con- 
centration. For  man  to  become  a  conscious  individualized 
son  of  God,  it  is  absolutely  necessary,  that  he  learn  to  bring 
his  outer  mind,  which  is  the  carnal  mind  in  man,  into  subjec- 
tion to  the  Soul-Ego,  or  Real  Self  consciousness,  ere  he  moves 
out  into  the  labyrinth  of  God's  eternal  varities  of  the  Divine 
Mysteries,  which  have  remained  hidden  from  the  unawakened 
man  from  the  never  beginning  eternity. 

If  man  has  not  the  Spiritual  teaching  in  connection  with 
the  awakening  and  cleansing  of  his  mind,  and  the  concentra- 
tion thereof,  which  brings  him  into  the  Spiritual  side  of  his 
Being,  where  he  is  taught  until  he  desires  the  New  Birth,  or 
Spiritual  Awakening,  he  may  think  the  mind,  and  the 
thoughts  of  the  carnal  mind  are  the  power, — he  having  learned 
that  the  thoughts  of  his  carnal  mind  are  ladened  with  power 
for  good; — he  may  also  learn  this  same  mind  can  use  its 
thoughts  for  harm,  or  to  influence  others*  minds  contrary  to 
their  desire;  and  sometimes,  before  some  of  the  earnest  stu- 
dents have  had  the  proper  spiritual  instructions,  they  believe 
it  to  be  right  to  use  their  power,  which  they  have  learned  is 
in  their  carnal  mind  and  its  thoughts,  unwisely.  In  so  doing 
they  are  injurious.  We  are  informed  that  many  of  the  Atlan- 
tians  understood  this  art. 

The  carnal  mind  is  not  permanent ;  because  it  is  to  be,  and 
will  become,  merged  into  the  God  Mind,  which  in  reality  is 
the  only  mind. 

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When  man  works  from  the  premise  of  the  carnal  mind,  it 
is  Mental  Science,  and  has  not  the  Christ  within  it. 

If  the  student  is  deeply  in  earnest,  he  will  soon  learn  the 
folly  of  that  mode  of  procedure;  because,  all  thoughts  sent 
from  the  mind,  ladened  with  the  desire  to  limit,  harm,  or 
destroy  another,  in  the  unerring  Law  of  Compensation,  will 
return  to  the  one  who  created  them ;  if  not  today,  in  some  other 
day;  for  the  Law  of  Cause  and  Effect  is  ever  in  operation; 
and  Jesus  Christ  said,  "Man  would  pay  even  unto  the  very 
last  farthing/'  and  their  fruits  will  come  into  expression 
within  themselves  and  their  world. 

It  is  well  for  all  to  know,  that  it  is  impossible  for  one  to 
escape  the  effect  of  an  unrighteous  thought,  sent  out  malic- 
iously; for  it  will  return.  It  acts  in  that  "Law  of  Cause  and 
Effect,"  which  is,  "As  you  sow,  so  shall  you  reap."  No  men- 
tal maneuvering  can  set  this  aside.  It  may  form  a  protection 
for  a  time,  but  all  things  mental  will  crumble ;  and  the  Law  of 
Karma  will  not  cease,  "Until  man  has  paid  unto  the  very  last 
farthing." 

This  is  the  place  where  the  tempter  seems  to  get  control  of 
some  before  they  are  Spiritually  Awakened. 

In  the  Bible  this  same  thing  is  called  by  different  names, 
the  magicians  of  Egypt  endeavored  by  their  incantations  to 
reproduce  the  miracles  of  Moses,  and,  up  to  a  certain  place, 
they  did  so;  but  they  came  to  the  limit  of  their  power;  and 
they  said,  "  Of  a  surety  this  is  the  hand  of  God. ' ' 

The  Prophets  of  Baal  endeavored  to  prove  that  their  many 
gods  were  as  great  as  the  One  God  which  Elijah  trusted,  and 
prayed  to ;  but  they  failed ;  their 's  being  the  gods  of  the  carnal 
mind's  conception. 

Elijah  had  burst  the  bounds  of  his  carnal  mind,  and  made 
the  Realization  of  the  One  God,  and  that  He  was  his  very  life. 

In  India,  this  same  power  of  the  carnal  mind  is  called  Black 
Magic.  All  of  this  power  is  carried  on  in  the  carnal  mind ;  it 
matters  not  who  it  is  that  thus  does.  The  carnal  mind  is 
not  regenerated.  Therefore,  all  of  this,  be  the  object  what  it 
may  (when  the  mind  is  used  to  harm  mankind),  is  done  in  the 
darkness  of  ignorance  of  the  Christ  Truth. 

No  man,  when  the  Christ  is  born  in  his  consciousness,  will 
ever  desire  to  do  thus.  Until  the  awakened  man,  whose  mind 
only  is  quickened,  is  born  again,  he  may  be  using  the  scientific 
application  of  the  Truth,  in  a  mental  concept  only.  However, 
if  he  is  in  earnest,  he  will  soon  see  that  he  is  giving  a  stone, 
when  man  asks  for  bread. 
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Man  to  come  into  the  place,  where  he  can  have  the  Realiza- 
tion at  all  times,  so  vital  that  the  appearance  of  disease  (which 
seems  to  be),  vanishes  in  answer  to  prayer,  finds  it  is  neces- 
sary to  learn  concerning  the  New  Birth;  then  tarry  until  he 
has  received  it.  He  then  has  the  Christ  Mind  expressing  in 
him,  and  the  Spirit  of  God,  that  Spirit  which  is  God,  estab- 
lished in  his  consciousness  by  that  influx  of  Divine  Power, 
which  none  but  God  understands. 

Man  ever  knows  thereafter,  that  he  is  a  son  of  God ;  and  in 
his  prayer,  meditations  and  moments  of  trustingly  abiding, 
returns  thanks  to  the  Infinite,  the  Father-Mother-God. 

He  Realizes  the  Truth  of  God's  Being,  the  Truth  of  his 
Being,  and  the  Reality  of  the  Spiritual  Universe. 

It  is  when  man  fully  Realizes  the  Truth,  that  his  heart 
overflows  with  gratitude,  and  his  lips  sing  praises  to  the  Infin- 
ite, our  Father-Mother-God. 

When  man  comes  into  the  Spiritual  Illumination,  he  per- 
ceives that  the  Higher  Metaphysics  is  only  for  man's  own  use 
within  his  own  mentality,  that  he  may  sweep  and  garnish  it 
so  that  the  God  Mind  may  thereafter  operate  there. 

There  are  many  steps  upon  the  Path,  from  the  time  man 
awakens,  until  he  reaches  the  Mountain  Summit  of  Illumina 
tion. 


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ONE  PKESENCE 

rN  the  Realization  of  the  Truth  as  it  IS,  concerning 
God,  in  His  fullness,  His  Oneness  and  Love,  and  man 
as  the  expression  of  God,  and  the  Spiritual  Universe ; 
and  that  One  Law  only  is  in  operation  in  and  through  all, — 
One  intelligence,  and  that  the  Infinite,  man  is  consciously  upon 
the  Sacred  Path,  which  the  Spiritually  awakened  have  pro- 
claimed from  the  most  ancient  times  even  unto  the  present. 

It  requires  the  awakening,  then  the  searching  for  the  Light, 
then  studying  until  understanding  is  reached,  then  the  bring- 
ing of  it  into  outer  expression  through  Realization. 

Concentration,  meditation,  reverence,  devotion,  apprecia- 
tion, and  these  expressed  in  prayer,  bring  man  into  rapport 
with  the  Omnipresent  God;  and,  in  proportion  as  man  comes 
into  the  Realization  of  the  Truth, — the  One  Presence, — he 
lives  in  the  God  Law,  it  being  the  only  Law.  When  man  is 
understandingly  in  rhythm  therewith,  he  is  in  the  Will  of 
God,  and  all  things,  "Work  together  for  his  good,"  when  man 
learns  how  to  let  them.  "Be  still  and  know  that  I  am  God," 
spake  the  voice  of  the  Cosmic  to  an  attuned  Prophet,  in  the 
long  ago. 

Not  sentimentally,  but  through  understanding,  abide  in 
the  One  Presence.  Be  still  and  meditate  upon  it,  and  you 
will  become  conscious  of  the  One  Presence,  which  is  God. 

Solomon  said,  "With  all  thy  getting,  get  understanding." 
In  understanding  you  perceive  there  is  no  reason  for  fear; 
as,  in  the  One  Presence,  there  is  naught  but  God  and  His 
manifestations. 

Then  in  abiding  confidence  man  can  "be  still  and  know 
that  God  is!"  Also,  "That  there  is  none  beside  Him." 

In  that  concept  of  the  Absolute  Truth,  man  loves  his  fel- 
low man,  as  he  meets  him  upon  life's  highway.  "He  does 
unto  his  fellow  man,  as  he  would  have  him  do  unto  him. ' '  His 
dealings  are  honest  and  fair  with  those  whom  he  does  busi- 
ness; because  he  remembers  in  the  Truth,  or  Real  of  their 
Being,  they  are  his  brothers. 
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The  Christ  Illumined  man  will  never  permit  any  of  those 
who  are  living  in  the  carnal  mind  concept  to  defraud  him  ;  as 
he,  perceiving  the  one  God  Law,  knows  it  must  balance  evenly  ; 
and,  permitting  one  to  defraud  him,  or  he  defrauding  another, 
each  brings  the  balance  to  an  uneven  balance  and  the  Law 
ceases  to  act  perfectly. 

Man,  understanding  this  Law  of  the  Cosmic,  perceives  he 
cannot  gain  anything  in  this  Law  for  nothing  ;  there  must  be 
the  recompense. 

Jesus  Christ,  Gautama  Buddha,  Krishna  and  all  other 
Divine  Incarnations  were  in  the  Cosmic  God  Consciousness; 
and  in  this  Cosmic  Illumination  they  lived  in  the  very  Heart 
of  the  Cosmic,  —  the  Omnipresent  God. 

This  Heart,  being  Love,  it  multiplies  to  man  from  out  the 
Essence,  —  the  One  Presence.  Then  man  has  fulfilled  the 
Law,  and  Law  has  merged  into  Love.  In  this  consciousness,  it 
being  Love,  man  lives  the  golden  rule,  and  *  '  does  unto  others, 
as  he  would  have  them  do  unto  him/7  This  masterful  state 
of  consciousness  forgets  self  in  its  desire  to  assist  mankind. 

Truth  necessarily  is  taught  in  paradox;  we  say  there  is 
but  One  Presence  ;  then  we  speak  of  the  Son  of  God. 

The  Son  of  God  is  the  Infinite  in  individualized  form  ;  The 
Infinite  is  the  Father-Mother,  the  impersonal,  God. 

When  man  catches  a  realization  of  this,  the  fetters  fall.  He 
is,  then,  no  longer  bound  by  the  carnal  beliefs.  He  walks  the 
earth,  a  conscious  son  of  God.  Being  conscious  of  his  Soul 
freedom,  he  peacefully,  lovingly  and  reverently  abides  in  the 
very  center  of  the  Omnipresent  God. 

Man,  ever  carrying  his  balance  in  this  illuminated  state, 
is  a  law  abiding  citizen;  and  ever  has  respect  for  the  law  of 
the  land.  Remembering  that  Jesus  said,  ''Render  unto  Caesar 
the  things  that  are  Caesar's  and  to  God  the  things  which  are 


Fanaticism  has  no  place  in  Truth  ;  it  only  proves  man's  lack 
of  understanding  of  the  Great  Truth,  —  the  One  Presence. 

Peter  in  his  zeal  may  have  been  called  fanatical;  but  that 
is  the  record  of  a  disciple  who  is  studying  and  searching  for 
the  Truth.  Peter  did  not  perceive  the  Truth  within  him, 
until  the  day  of  Pentecost;  and  after  he  was  endowed  with 
power  from  on  high,  by  that  wonderful  experience,  when  he 
was  baptised  in  the  Holy  Spirit;  and  the  Comforter,  which 
Jesus  had  promised,  came  within  him  to  abide.  Peter  spake 
boldly,  and  with  power  thereafter;  but  not  with  fanaticism. 
This  is  acting  in  the  guidance  of  the  One  Presence,  which  is 
the  Living  God. 

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Then,  be  faithful  at  all  times  to  that  inner  voice  which 
ever  speaks  the  words  of  wisdom  required.  It  is  necessary 
that  man  surrender  his  carnal  mind  before  he  can  distinctly 
hear  the  sweet  silent  voice  of  the  Over  Soul, — to  his  Soul ;  and 
understand  its  language. 

Man,  being  an  individualized  expression  of  the  Infinite,  and 
expressing  in  that  Presence,  when  man  becomes  conscious  of 
this,  he  will  move  serenely  along  the  Path ;  and  in  contentment 
live  in  the  Realization  of  the  Truth  of  his  Being,  and  of  the 
One  Presence. 

Man's  mentality  is  a  perfectly  attuned  instrument,  ex- 
pressed by  God  Himself.  Man  can  permit  the  carnal  mind  to 
operate  in  and  through  it,  and  rule  him  with  a  rod  of  iron. 
As  long  as  this  mind  is  the  ruler,  man  is  bound  to  the  Wheel 
of  Birth  and  Death. 

Through  understanding  man  can  cast  the  accumulations  of 
false  beliefs  from  his  mind  through  denials;  and  then  affirm 
the  Truth  of  the  Allness  of  the  Omnipresence  which  is  God, 
until  God  giveth  the  increase,  and  man  realizes  his  True 
Being  in  God. 

In  the  One  Presence  which  is  God,  there  is  Peace,  Love, 
Harmony.  In  proportion  as  man  perceives  this,  he  lives  in 
the  Realm  of  the  Real. 

0,  Living  Presence  Divine! 
We  desire  to  feel  thy  throbbing  Heart, 
As  it  pulsates  throughout  the  Universe ; 
Quickening  the  heart  of  every  living  thing. 


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LESSON  4 

THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
BOUNTY 

AN,  being  the  manifestation  of  God,  is  in  expressed 
form,  and  is  living  in  the  world  of  expression. 

The  Universe,  in  which  God  placed  man,  is  bounti- 
It  is  Bounty,  because  the  Omnipresent  Essence  is  there, 
and  it  is  from  this  that  the  bountiful  supply  of  God's  bounty 
to  man  comes  forth. 

The  Spiritual  Universe  is  God's  storehouse;  and,  if  man 
were  spiritually  illumined  in  the  fullness  of  Eealization,  the 
magnitude  of  God's  bounty  would  be  more  wonderful  than 
man's  limited  mind  can  comprehend. 

The  student-devotee  who  desires  to  apply  the  rules  of  that 
principle,  which  brings  into  evidence  that  which  is  desired, 
stands  upon  the  solid  foundation,  "The  Truth  Absolute." 
There,  calling  to  remembrance  the  Omnipresence  of  the 
Bounty  of  God,  and  that  he  is  heir  there  unto,  he  abides  in  his 
Divine  Inheritance. 

Should  lack  of  any  good  thing  present  itself  to  you  for 
recognition,  accept  it,  not  as  a  reality;  but  instead  of  giving 
it  a  hearty  recognition,  renounce  it  as  unreal.  As  it  does  not 
square  with  the  fundamental  principle — God,  refuse  it  a  rest- 
ing place  in  your  mind,  and,  if  loss  seems  inevitable,  deny  its 
reality,  because,  in  the  Omnipresent  Ocean  of  God  Bounty 
and  Love  there  can  be  no  permanent  loss. 

The  Spiritual  Universe  is  Spirit  Essence,  eternal  and  un- 
changable;  and  Bounty  with  its  abundance  is  everywhere 
in  evidence.  When  the  opposite  announces  its  presence,  even 
if  it  seems  so  real  that  fear  chills  you,  stop!  and  from  the 
Rock  of  Truth,  God,  look  into  it  boldly.  Then  deny  fear  from 
your  mentality  until  all  is  removed.  You  will  then  be  calm. 
Then  affirm  the  Truth  of  your  Being,  and  affirm  that  you  abide 
in  God. 

After  denying  the  reality  of  fear,  lack,  or  unsuccess  or 
bad  luck,  or  loss;  then  get  down  in  earnest  and  affirm  the 
Omnipresent  God;  and  the  Bounty  that  is;  and  that  God 
caused  you  (man)  to  become  an  individualized  manifestation, 

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a  divine  man  in  expression;  and  placed  you  (man),  "The 
crowning  glory  of  God,"  in  the  midst  of  God's  Spiritual  Uni- 
verse, and  said,  "Man  is  heir  to  the  bounty  herein. " 

When  the  mentality  is  filled  with  the  consciousness  of  the 
Truth;  then  express  your  unselfish  desire  to  the  Father. 
Then  it  is,  man  can  talk  familiarly  with  the  Father,  knowing 
God,  the  Father,  can  in  His  great  grace  act  in  the  spontaneity 
of  the  pulsating  Heart  of  the  Living  God ;  or  in  and  through 
the  Law  of  Action,  which  is  in  ceaseless  action  throughout 
the  universe;  and  expresses  in  the  outer  garb  called  nature. 
Call  to  remembrance  that  Law  which  caused  the  life  germ  in 
the  grain  of  corn  that  is  planted  in  the  earth  to  stir,  and  burst 
its  encasement ;  then  to  pass  through  the  dark  earth  and  greet 
the  sunlight.  Then  you  can  perceive,  "All  things  are  pos- 
sible with  God,"  in  His  great  Love,  Law  and  Power. 

Denial  of  lack  washes  that  belief  from  the  mind.  The 
affirmation  of  the  Truth  of  the  abundance  of  God's  Bounty 
is  the  method  to  bring  the  consciousness  of  this  reality  into 
expression  within  man's  conception,  into  realization;  and, 
even  though  man's  bountiful  supply  may  remain  in  the  invis- 
ible, or  unmanif est,  be  not  disturbed,  neither  permit  your  faith 
to  weaken;  but  learn  a  lesson  from  the  kernel  of  corn. 

In  speaking  the  prayer  in  the  name  of  Jesus  Christ,  you 
are  using  an  occult  law;  because  the  name  means  manifesta- 
tion, or,  coming  into  expression  here  and  now.  This  is  the 
name  of  the  conscious  manifested  Son  of  God. 

In  the  Bounty  of  God,  there  is  abundance  for  all.  There- 
fore, when  man  has  illumination  strong  enough  to  bring  him 
into  the  Eealization  of  the  Absoluteness  as  it  is,  he  can  per- 
ceive the  Key  which  touched  the  spring  of  the  opulence  of 
God,  which  Jesus  used  when  He  fed  the  multitudes. 


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THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 
LOVE 

JOHN  said,  "God  is  Love."  When  man  perceives 
I  this,  he  can  look  into  the  Infinite  with  confiding  trust, 
Iturn  to  the  principle  which  solves  all  problems,  and 
fearlessly  proclaim  the  Omnipresence  of  God  Love.  In  the 
Presence  of  Love,  man  expresses  his  perfection,  his  righteous- 
ness, his  purity ;  and  man  feels  that  nobility  which  is  the  very 
Presence,  "In  which  he  lives,  moves  and  has  his  being. " 

There  is  no  hate  in  Love.  When  man  has  reached  the  illum- 
ination into  God  Love,  he  has  broken  all  barriers  from  his 
concept,  and  he,  then,  in  the  Eealization  of  freedom  of  Soul, 
expresses  mastership  ;  as  all  Law  melts  before  the  consciousness 
of  God  Love,  and  man  stands  redeemed,  in  the  Essence  Ocean 
Divine ;  at-home-in-God ;  man 's  permanent  abode. 

When  man  has  the  Love,  which  is  God,  in  operation  in  and 
through  him,  he  will  then  become  conscious  of  his  Real  Self, 
that  Divine  Being  whom  ' '  God  created  in  His  Image  and  Like- 
ness. ' '  He  then  will  move  erect  and  look  into  the  depth  of  the 
blue  sky  and  listen  attentively  to  the  song  of  the  birds  and 
appreciate  the  landscape,  dressed  in  green  and  decorated  with 
the  flowers  of  many  hues ;  as  all  now  speak  to  him  of  God,  the 
Omnipresent  Love. 

In  Love  Divine  there  is  nothing  but  Love,  and  man  can  feel 
that  Peace  "which  passeth  material  understanding. " 

The  Love  Essence  is  God  in  His  impersonal  or  unmanifest 
form,  that  state  of  repose  before  creation  came  forth  into 
expression. 

Man  the  manifestation,  or  individual  expression,  of  the 
Infinite,  lives  and  moves  in  the  Ocean  of  Love,  as  the  fish  lives 
and  moves  in  the  ocean,  or  the  bird  in  the  air. 

When  man  has  become  fully  awake,  and  Eealizes  he  is  a  son 
of  God,  he  will  perceive  that  man,  *  '  The  image  and  likeness  of 
God ; "  is  a  divine  man. 

Then  the  Love,  which  is  God,  will  manifest  in  man.  The 
human  love  is  not  considered  here,  it  being  that  which  abides 
in  that  land  whose  shores  are  shifting  sand. 

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It  is  well  for  the  student-devotee  to  understand  distinctly 
between  the  human  love  and  the  Love  which  is  God  Love,  the 
Ocean  Essence  of  the  Omnipresence,  God ; — Love. 

When  God  Love  is  fully  expressed  in  the  individual,  per- 
sonality will  have  departed  from  his  concept.  He  then  with 
the  eye  of  vision  pierces  the  veil  and  lives  in  the  recognition  of 
God's  perfect  universe;  amidst  the  individual  expressions  of 
God;  and  in  the  bounty  which  abounds  at  all  points  where 
his  Path  may  lead. 

In  Love  Divine  bounty  abides,  beauty  expresses,  and  every 
living  thing  is  in  rhythm  with  the  Living,  Loving  Heart  of  the 
Living  God.  For  man  to  come  into  the  clear  perception  of  this 
he  necessarily  must  cleanse  his  mentality  of  carnal  beliefs  and 
confusions,  that  he  may  perceive  there  is  no  dividing  line, 
between  man  and  God,  only  the  carnal  mind  concept. 

When  the  heart  is  touched  to  such  a  depth  that  the  Soul's 
Self  is  astir,  and  the  mentality  is  cleaned ;  then  it  is  that  man 
walks  in  the  ever  green  fields  of  the  Eternal  God;  and  Love 
whispers  the  silent  song  of  the  Over  Soul, — to  the  Soul  of  man, 
and  he  responds  in  rapture  grand,  and  vibrates  Love,  yes,  the 
Love  that  is  God. 

In  Love  Divine  bounty  abides ;  and  man,  through  the  Christ 
Illumination,  abides  in  Love  Divine,  and  perceives  its  bounti- 
ful hand  provides  his  every  need ;  he  also  knows  the  needs  of 
his  brothers  are  supplied. 

In  this  state  of  Spiritual  concept,  man  in  kindness  remem- 
bers his  brothers  who  need  the  encouraging  smile,  or  hand- 
clasp, or  a  prayer. 

In  Love  there  is  trust,  abiding  confidence  and  contentment. 
This  is  the  state  of  the  Real  man,  the  Divine  man  of  each  one. 

If  the  appearance  is  other  than  this,  use  The  Higher  Meta- 
physics until  the  mentality  is  clear  of  carnal  false  concepts, 
by  denying  their  seeming  reality.  Then  affirm  the  Truth  of 
Being  into  Realization. 

Remember  always  that  Jesus  Christ  is  the  way-shower,  our 
Elder  Brother,  and  He  spake  the  prayer  that  cast  out  the  evil 
spirits,  which  raised  the  dead — as  Lazarus,  the  widow's  son, 
and  others ;  as  well  as  the  spiritually  dead. 

When  Nicodemus  came  to  Jesus,  although  a  learned  man, 
("a  ruler  of  the  Jews")  he  was  dead  as  to  spiritual  things. 
Jesus  said  to  him,  "Ye  must  be  born  again."  Those  words 
were  the  notes  which  awoke  Nicodemus.  He  asked,  ' '  How  can 
it  be  ?  How  can  a  man  enter  the  second  time  into  his  mother 's 

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womb  and  be  born?"  We  can  see  by  these  questions  that 
Nicodemus  had  not  the  full  awakening;  Jesus  answered,  ''Ye 
must  be  born  from  above." 

Man  will  not  fully  understand  the  Love,  which  is  God  Love, 
until  he  is  born  from  above.  This  is  the  Baptism  of  the  Holy 
Spirit. 

After  man  has  received  the  New  Birth  he  knows  his  at-one- 
ment  with  the  Father.  Before  this  he  accepts  it  as  a  great 
Truth  by  and  through  Faith. 

After  this  change  has  taken  place  in  man,  he  forever  knows 
that  he  and  the  Father  are  inseparable.  Then  he  realizes  the 
Oneness  of  Father,  Son  and  Holy  Spirit;  he  then  no  longer 
doubts,  because  he  knows. 

Then  in  confiding  trust,  he  abides  in  the  Presence  of  God 
Love,  and  Realizes  he  is  an  expression  of  God  Love,  and  his 
abiding  place  is  the  Ocean  Essence — Divine  Love. 


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THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

THE  CHRIST  CONSCIOUSNESS 

|HEN  man  is  born  again  and  the  Christ  Consciousness 
is  expressing  in  him,  he  may  believe  he  has  accom- 
plished his  work,  and  that  he  now  can  sit  down ;  how- 
ever, he  will  soon  discover  his  work  has  just  really  begun. 

Should  a  student  feel  a  lethargy  overtake  him,  he  should 
arise  and  stand  firm  and  strong  upon  the  One  Rock, — The 
Absolute  Truth. 

It  is  well  for  man  (symbolically  speaking)  to  enter  the 
silence  in  a  standing  attitude ;  and,  in  that  silent  chamber  of 
the  Infinite,  which  is  ever  present,  retire  into  the  silent  cham- 
ber of  his  own  Soul.  In  this  silent  communion  with  God,  real- 
izing the  Truth,  man  can  shake  off  any  lethargy,  be  it  called 
by  any  name  it  may,  by  denying  its  power  and  reality  while 
realizing  the  Truth  of  Being. 

Sometimes  the  new  born  man  has  so  many  seeming  trials 
that  he  will  find  it  necessary  to  do  as  Jesus  did  when  tempted 
by  the  adversary.  He  commanded  the  tempter  (the  carnal 
mind's  beliefs,  fears,  doubts  and  anxieties),  to  depart; — "Get 
thee  behind  me,  Satan. ' '  Should  any  one  become  discouraged, 
or  even  expect  to  fully  escape  the  testing  time,  when  he  sees 
the  Great  Master  did  not  escape  ? 

Here  is  where  man  begins  to  "Hew  to  the  line." 

Isaiah  said,  "The  grass  withereth,  the  flower  fadeth,  but 
the  word  of  our  God  shall  stand  forever."  Is.  40:8. 

"But  they  that  wait  upon  the  Lord  shall  renew  their 
strength ;  they  shall  mount  up  with  wings  as  eagles ;  they  shall 
run  and  not  be  weary;  and  they  shall  walk  and  not  faint." 
Is.  40:31. 

"Keep  silence  before  me,  0  islands;  and  let  the  people 
renew  their  strength;  let  them  come  near;  then  let  them 
speak ;  let  us  come  together  to  judgment. ' '  Is.  41 :1. 

"Fear  thou  not,  for  I  am  with  thee;  be  not  dismayed,  for 
I  am  thy  God;  I  will  strengthen  thee;  yea,  I  will  help  thee; 
yea,  I  will  uphold  thee  with  the  right  hand  of  my  righteous- 
ness." Is.  41:10. 

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Isaiah,  having  pierced  the  veil  of  carnal  illusion,  could 
receive  the  revelations  which  God  desired  him,  as  God's 
Prophet,  to  give  to  the  men  of  earth,  that  they  might  learn 
the  way  out  from  the  forest  of  illusions.  Not  that  God  is  a 
God  of  wrath ;  but  that  man  may  glean  the  fullness  of  Truth 
and  learn  that  God  is  Love. 

Besides,  being  that  indwelling  Presence,  which  is  the  Divine 
man,  the  Real  Self  of  each  man,  God  is  that  over-shadowing 
Presence  which,  though  invisible,  ever  responds  in  answering 
man 's  prayer. 

In  the  full  Christ  Consciousness,  man  appreciates  the 
Father ;  and,  in  humility,  stands  in  reverence  in  the  Presence 
of  the  Greatness,  the  All-ness  and  Absoluteness  of  the  Infinite. 
Then  it  is  that  he  can  thankfully  say,  "  Father,  I  thank  thee, 
that  I,  an  individualized  expression  of  thyself,  have  solved  my 
problem,  and  have  arrived  at  Home." 

Man,  to  become  en  rapport  with  God  and  His  perfect  crea- 
tion and  remain  there,  must  vibrate  in  rhythm  therewith. 

Life  is  Action.  Stagnation  is  death.  Then,  to  live  in  con- 
scious unity  with  God  and  His  Spiritual  Universe,  man  must 
ever  be  in  action  in  the  Spiritual  Law  while  it  is  operating 
in  and  through  him,  and  the  Holy  Breath  is  breathing  him. 

When  all  men  arrive  at  that  state  in  conscious  understand- 
ing and  spiritual  abiding,  it  will  be  as  Isaiah  prophesied. 

' l  The  lamb  and  lion  will  lie  down  together,  and  a  little  child 
shall  lead  them. ' ' 

Innocence,  Purity,  Love  and  Peace  will  then  abound.  May 
that  day  speedily  come ! 


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REALIZATION 

VER  remember ;  it  is  the  Realization  of  the  Truth  that 
brings  the  fruitful  results. 

Man  can  make  statements  of  Truth,  hold  good 
thoughts,  or  pray,  and  he  will  gain  very  little  until  he  comes 
into  the  realization  of  the  Truth. 

When  man  Realizes  the  Allness  of  God,  His  nearness,  power 
and  perfection,  and  that  man  is  an  individualized  manifesta- 
tion of  this,  that  he  is  living  in  this  very  Presence,  that  God's 
Law  is  ever  in  operation,  and  that  God  giveth  the  increase,  as 
the  water  fills  the  vacuum,  from  which  the  pail  of  water  was 
taken,  then  has  he  achieved  the  fruitful  results. 

So,  the  Substance — Spirit — of  God  becomes  evident  in 
Realization ;  and  health  takes  the  place  where  sickness  was ; 
joy,  where  sorrow ;  bounty,  where  lack  seemed  to  abound ;  and 
life  fills  the  place  of  death. 

Realization  is  a  meaningless  word  to  the  one  who  has  not 
experienced  it. 

Jesus  said,  "Ye  shall  know  the  Truth,  and  the  Truth  shall 
make  you  free."  When  man  is  born  into  the  Spirit  Concept, 
he  must  gain  understanding  until  he  "Knows  the  Truth." 

When  man  knows  the  Truth  he  will  have  the  Realization 
thereof ;  and,  when  man  has  the  Realization  full  and  complete, 
he  knows  the  Truth. 

When  man  awakes  and  perceives  he  is  living  in  and  express- 
ing something  quite  the  opposite  from  that  which  is  God, 
man's  work  really  begins,  that  he  may  gain  his  bearing  where 
he  is  and  set  about  to  solve  his  own  problems. 

Man,  then,  will  soon  discover  there  is  nothing  gained  by 
passing  through  the  door  called  death. 

Realization  brings  Life  into  conscious  expression  and  man 
becomes  a  conscious  son  of  the  Living  God.  Then  his  next 
step  is  conscious  One-ness  of  the  Great  All.  This  is  God  Con- 
sciousness, or  full  Realization. 

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COMPLETENESS 

HE  message  of  Truth,  which  God  has  caused  to  be 
revealed  to  the  men  of  earth,  is  full  and  complete. 
When  man  knows  the  inner,  or  Spirit  of  it,  as  well  as 
the  outer,  the  letter,  he  can  with  understanding  pierce  the  veil 
of  mist  and  perceive  the  Omnipresent  God,  which  is  complete- 
ness. 

When  man  is  taught  in  The  Higher  Metaphysics  to  deny 
the  reality  of  sickness,  pain,  poverty,  age  and  worry,  because 
they  are  not  the  Real,  the  Permanent,  it  is  necessary  that  a 
student  understands  clearly  concerning  this,  ere  he  has  the 
illumination  which  delivers  him  from  the  thraldom  of  the 
carnal  man's  life,  as  he  lives  it  upon  earth  in  the  midst  of 
carnality. 

Why  did  God  choose  the  Hebrew  people  as  His  chosen 
people  ? 

Because  they  were  one-pointed,  in  this,  they  believed  in  one 
God. 

God  had  dealt  with  other  peoples  all  down  the  Ages,  accord- 
ing to  their  ongoings  in  the  cyclic  events  of  the  family  of  men 
as  they  lived  in  the  carnal  web  of  illusions. 

So  we  see  God  permitted  the  Hebrew  people  to  work  out 
their  problems  as  a  nation  or  people,  and  the  history  of  their 
ongoings  was  kept  step  by  step  ;  this  is  called  the  Old  Bible. 

The  Prophets  of  God  were  raised  up,  one  after  another,  that 
the  Spiritual  Message  of  the  Infinite  to  the  men  of  the  earth 
could  come  hand  in  hand  with  the  historical, — the  letter. 

The  Spirit,  being  invisible,  many,  indeed,  have  caught  only 
the  letter;  but  some  there  have  been  all  down  the  centuries 
who  have  caught  the  Spirit  which  lies  just  behind  the  letter, 
and  these  have  lived  close  to  God  and  enjoyed  that  sweet  peace 
which  comes  to  the  man  who  can  know  the  very  Presence  of 
the  Father-Mother-God. 

Jesus  taught  humanity  the  Message  which  the  Father  gave 
Him.  He  proved  the  Divineness  thereof  by  the  "signs  fol- 
lowing." 

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When  Jesus  was  nearing  the  close  of  His  ministry  He  told 
His  disciples  that  He  would  go  from  them.  He  said  to  them, 
' '  It  is  expedient  that  I  go. " 

They,  then,  had  reached  the  place  where  they  must  lean 
upon  themselves, — and  God, — alone;  but  He  promised  them 
He  would  ask  the  Father  to  send  the  Comforter  (The  Holy 
Spirit).  He  added  to  that  promise,  ''When  He,  the  Spirit  of 
Truth  is  come,  He  will  lead  and  guide  you  into  all  Truth. ' ' 

After  the  disciples  received  the  Baptism  of  the  Holy  Spirit 
on  the  day  of  Pentacost,  they  spoke  the  Truth  boldly,  as  they 
had  seen  it  proven. 

This  is  the  dawn  of  another  cycle,  the  Third  Dispensation ; 
and  the  Spirit  of  Truth  is  the  Great  Teacher.  It  comes  into, 
and  abides  within,  man's  consciousness  and  heart  when  man 
is  born  again. 

The  quickening  comes  from  above.  Then,  in  the  Silent 
Chamber  of  the  Soul, — the  heart — talk  to  the  Father-Mother- 
God,  that  you  may  receive  this  wonderful  quickening. 

As  man  moves  forward  upon  the  Path  he  perceives  the 
completeness  in  the  message  of  Christ;  and  that  man's  body 
is  to  be  redeemed. 

Jesus  proved  that  if  man  understood  God's  message  to  man, 
from  the  first  chapter  in  Genesis  to  the  last  in  Revelation,  he 
could  see  that  he  has  not  completed  his  individual  problem  in 
the  school  of  experience  until  he  has  mastered  each  law  of 
the  carnal  illusions,  which  binds  man  to  the  Wheel  of  Birth 
and  Death. 

This  man  does  through  insight,  perception  and  perseverence. 

Thus  man,  if  a  student-devotee,  and  in  earnest  sufficiently 
deep  to  study,  pray,  meditate,  concentrate  and  live  the  Life  as 
unto  righteousness,  can  see  that  the  whole  web  of  Truth,  com- 
plete and  perfect  from  the  Garden  of  Eden  to  the  Redeemed 
Son,  is  for  the  individual ;  and  that  each  and  every  man  must 
work  out  their  own  salvation — or  solve  his  individual  problem. 

The  Message  of  Truth  is  complete;  and,  when  man  has 
solved  his  problem  and  worked  it  out  within  himself,  he  is,  in 
consciousness,  a  complete  son  of  the  Living  God.  In  this  con- 
sciousness of  completeness,  man  lives  in  Peace,  Contentment 
and  Divine  Satisfaction  forever  more.  "So  God  created  man 
in  His  own  image ;  in  the  image  of  God,  created  He  him ;  male 
and  female  created  he  them. ' '  Gen.  1 :27. 

"And  God  saw  everything  that  He  had  made,  and,  behold, 
it  was  very  good.  And  the  evening  and  the  morning  were  the 
sixth  day."  Gen.  1:31. 

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We  now  turn  to  Revelation.  "And  I  saw  a  new  heaven 
and  a  new  earth :  for  the  first  Heaven  and  the  first  Earth  were 
passed  away;  and  there  was  no  more  sea."  Rev.  21:1. 

"And  I,  John,  saw  the  Holy  City,  New  Jerusalem,  coming 
down  from  God  out  of  Heaven,  prepared  as  a  bride  adorned 
for  her  husband. ' '  Rev.  21 :2. 

"And  he  said  unto  me,  it  is  done.  I  am  Alpha  and  Omega, 
the  beginning  and  the  end.  I  will  give  unto  him  that  is  athirst 
of  the  fountain  of  the  water  of  life  freely."  Rev.  21:6. 

( l  He  that  overcometh  shall  inherit  all  things ;  and  I  will  be 
his  God:  and  he  shall  be  my  son."  Rev.  21:7. 

"And  the  Spirit  and  the  Bride  say,  come.  And  let  him  that 
heareth  say,  come.  And  let  him  that  is  athirst  come.  And 
whosoever  will,  let  him  take  the  water  of  life  freely."  Rev. 
22:17. 

"The  grace  of  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ  be  with  you  all." 
Amen.  Rev.  22:21. 


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THE  HIGHER  METAPHYSICS 

MASTEKSHIP 

ASTERSHIP  is  a  word  which  can  be  interpreted  in 
many  ways;  but  the  wise  will  not  place  a  relative 
interpretation  upon  it,  being  placed  here  at  the  climax 
of  these  instructions;  which  have  been  given  that  man  may 
become  illumined  into  the  Christ  Light,  which  lights  him  into 
the  one  Essence  Divine,  where  he  becomes  illumined  into  the 
consciousness  of  the  "Oneness  of  the  All,"  and  the  "Allness 
of  the  One." 

This  we  term  God  Consciousness.  In  this  state  of  illumina- 
tion man  looks  into  the  heart  of  every  living  thing,  and  sees 
the  One  Presence  there;  his  vision  being  divine,  he  sees 
through  the  outer  garb  of  all,  yea,  he  penetrates  the  depths, 
and  lo,  he  finds  One  Presence  there.  What  is  this  One  Pres- 
ence? The  Omnipresent  God  which  is  the  center  of  all,  and 
draped  in  a  mantle  of  nature ;  we  admire  nature  in  its  differ- 
ent garbs,  different  tones  and  blending  of  colors.  However,  a 
master  knows  if  there  were  not  the  omnipresent  reality  just 
back  of  nature,  there  would  be  no  mantle  of  nature. 

A  master  understands  nature  is  a  lower  vibration  of  the 
Infinite;  as  when  a  planet  loses  its  key-note  of  rhythm  with 
the  harmonious  vibration  of  the  infinite  universe,  it  thereby 
losing  its  equilibrium,  will  finally  become  disintegrated  by  the 
intertwining  of  cross  vibrations,  and  merge  back  into  the  first 
cause,  the  Essence  Divine,  the  Omnipotent  God;  there  to 
remain  until  one  by  one  each  individual  atom  again  becomes 
en  rapport  with  the  forming  vibration  of  Life  Action.  How 
long  doth  this  require?  No  man  knoweth.  God  is  Omni- 
present, God  is  Love,  Life,  Action,  Intelligence,  Power,  Har- 
mony, Peace;  therefore,  a  master  perceives  it  matters  not 
what  the  process  seems  to  be,  whether  destruction  or  construc- 
tion ;  as  none  can  stray  beyond  God 's  Love  and  Care ;  and  in 
the  Infinite  there  is  a  place  for  all. 

Therefore,  it  matters  not  what  place  any  man  may  be  upon 
the  Path  of  experience,  even  though  it  is  the  depth  of  the  illu- 
sive forest ;  and  he  being  in  the  illusion  of  Maya,  may  believe 

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there  is  no  God ;  his  belief  has  no  power  to  change  that  which 
is ;  and  a  master  knoweth  God  is  right  there ;  and  that,  should 
that  brother  become  aroused  sufficiently  to  turn  his  mind 
within,  and  be  still,  he  will  hear  the  "Still  Small  Voice/'  the 
voice  of  God  is  ever  speaking  to  man;  in  the  mountain  still- 
ness, the  roaring  of  cataracts,  the  desert,  or  in  the  great  city. 
It  is  a  tender  voice, — so  tender,  the  carnal  mind  must  become 
quiet,  that  man  may  hear ;  when  man  hears,  then  stops  to  lis- 
ten, soon  his  heart  becomes  astir;  for  the  Real  Self  is  ever 
desirous  to  express  his  consciousness  to  the  outer  self,  that  his 
work  may  become  finished ;  for  his  task  is  to  redeem  his  temple, 
or  lower  self. 

Here  is  where  Mastership  begins  to  come  into  expression; 
there  is  no  mastership  for  any  individual  except  that  which 
God  commanded  man  at  the  dawn  of  creation  to  bring  into 
expression;  which  is  the  Real  Self.  "That  man  which  God 
created  in  his  image  and  likeness,"  is  to  master  his  outer,  or 
carnal  mind,  through  purifying  it  into  transparency;  and 
bring  his  body  into  redemption  through  enlightenment;  and 
Love  and  Devotion  to  the  great  Over  Soul, — the  Supreme 
Spirit  of  the  Universe. 

The  Divine  Incarnations  of  all  Ages  have  expressed  master- 
ship. That  is,  they  themselves  have  overcome  the  propensi- 
ties of  the  lower  self,  thereby  elevating  it  to  the  place  of  one- 
ness, where  union,  or  Yoga  takes  place;  when  this  is  accom- 
plished mastership  being  expressed,  man  becomes  an  adept. 

First  man,  in  his  ongoings  toward  full  redemption  as  in  the 
fullness  of  the  message  of  Jesus  Christ,  becomes  the  awakened 
one,  then  the  earnest  seeker,  then  the  student-devotee,  then  the 
Enlightned  Sage,  then  Adept ;  and  man  merging  into  enlight- 
enment becomes  a  Master.  Not  over  his  fellow  man,  no !  But 
over  his  outer  self,  which  has  kept  him  so  long  in  the  forest 
of  Maya;  and  bound  by  chains  of  Karma  to  the  wheel  which 
rolls  therein.  A  master  is  Redeemed ;  and  stands  in  conscious 
illumination  in  that  Realization,  as  Jesus  proclaimed  when 
He  said,  ' '  The  Father  and  I  are  one. ' ' 

Oneness  means  unity;  there  can  be  no  separation  in  one- 
ness. 

Mastership  is  conscious  Freedom ;  through  spiritual  illumin- 
ation into  the  consciousness  Divine. 

A  Master  hath  nothing  more  to  do  with  Higher  Metaphys- 
ics ;  neither  Scientific  Truth ;  he  has  merged  into  the  conscious- 
ness of  the  Ocean  Essence  Divine ;  he  is  one  with  it,  one  in  it, 

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and  it  in  him;  "The  dew-drop  is  in  the  shining  sea,  and  the 
shining  sea  within  him. ' '    Oneness. 

In  this  state  of  illumination,  man  lives  in  the  world,  as  one 
in  it,  but  he  is  not  of  it;  he  ever  wears  a  robe  of  humility; 
although  his  vesture  may  be  fine  linens,  or  purple  velvets ;  and 
jewels  of  value,  and  sparkling  brilliancy  may  be  his;  he,  a 
Master,  ever  seeth  those  things  of  carnality  as  fleeting  and 
changing;  and  they  have  no  illusive  power  to  entrance  him; 
he  is  free  from  their  fascinating  brilliancy. 

A  Master,  has  overcome,  ere  he  is  a  Master;  and  he,  to 
remain  a  Master,  expresses  his  mastership  at  all  times,  over 
any  illusive  temptation  of  carnality. 

Conscious  Mastership  is  constant  alertness,  conscious  action ; 
in  serenity,  rhythm,  peace  and  love ;  he  is  anchored ;  his  heart 
is  melted  into  Love  Divine  and  united  with  the  Cosmic  Heart ; 
as  the  Cosmic  Heart  beats  in  Love's  vibration  into  the  heart 
of  all  men,  and  every  living  thing;  a  Master  vibrates  there- 
with ;  and  he  becomes  an  objective  center  for  the  Cosmic  Love 
to  vibrate  through  to  the  children  of  men. 

When  in  the  process  of  man's  ongoing  upon  the  Sacred 
Path,  he  comes  to  Yogi,  where  the  heart  and  head  are  united, 
then  he  adapts  himself  through  understanding  to  that  which 
the  Father  desireth  of  him.  And  in  time  unity  takes  place 
and  man  is  merged  into  the  Ocean  Essence  Divine  and  man 
becomes  At-one  in  God;  as  the  drop  in  the  ocean  becomes  at- 
one in  the  ocean. 

The  call  from  the  Cosmic  Heart  is  vibrating  throughout  the 
earth ;  the  New  Age  is  here,  and  the  Spiritual  vibrations  are 
refreshing  the  earth  and  all  living  things;  and  man,  "God's 
crowning  glory,"  will  ever  find  he  is  in  the  very  presence  of 
the  Loving,  Living  God.  And  that  He,  ever  hath  a  place  pre- 
pared for  all. 

A  Master  may  stand  upon  the  summit,  and  some  of  his 
brothers  be  afar  in  the  desert;  but  he  knoweth  the  Father 
ever  heareth  and  answers  prayer ;  therefore,  the  master  is  ever 
about  his  Father's  business;  and  he  prays  that  the  Light  of 
God  will  enlighten  his  brothers  who  are  in  the  desert  or  wilder- 
ness; and  the  Love  that  is  God,  hold  them  secure  until  they 
awake,  arise,  and  return  Home. 

God 's  grace  is  great ;  His  Love  Omnipotent ;  therefore,  the 
enlightened  ones  sing  praises  to  Him,  in  ' '  Whom  all  live,  move 
and  have  their  being. ' ' 

One  by  one  the  individuals  cast  anchor  in  the  home  port, 
the  Father's  House, — man's  destination. 
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Death  does  not  assist  man  into  this  port ;  but  enlightenment 
into  the  Christ  Light,  which  guides  man  into  the  ocean  of  God 
Love ;  where  he  perceives  the  Truth  of  Being,  and  the  Omni- 
presence, Omnipotence  and  Omniscience  of  God. 

Mastership !  When  man  knows  the  Truth,  he  is  ever  desir- 
ous of  service ;  this  is  the  mark  of  mastership ;  he  looks  not  to 
fruits  of  action,  but  consciously  abides  and  radiates  his  bless- 
ing to  all  who  pass  along. 

He  in  understanding  dives  into  the  depth  of  the  deep; 
and  there  abides ;  knowing  this  is  the  very  Heart  of  God. 


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